Four years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has emerged as a flourishing city for entrepreneurship.
With the four year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on the horizon, New Orleans' rebuilding efforts are still underway.
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Entrepreneurs Take to 'Big Easy'
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Four years after Hurricane Katrina's devastation, New Orleans is experiencing a rebirth of entrepreneurship.
Small-business owners who left are now coming back, driven by a sense of mission to help the struggling city and to take advantage of generous tax breaks. Young professionals have moved to the Big Easy to help with its recovery, enjoy its cultural offerings and start businesses. Surviving companies entered niche business lines as competitors folded or left.
Entrepreneurs Leverage New Orleans’s Charm to Lure Small Businesses
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IT has been a long time since the word “optimism” was spoken in the same sentence as “New Orleans.”
But a small group of entrepreneurs has been using that word lately to describe their efforts to attract small businesses to New Orleans. For now, their enthusiasm may be greater than their results. But they say the city’s low rents and business tax incentives along with its music and culture have proved to be powerful lures, despite the still-halting efforts to get past the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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But a small group of entrepreneurs has been using that word lately to describe their efforts to attract small businesses to New Orleans. For now, their enthusiasm may be greater than their results. But they say the city’s low rents and business tax incentives along with its music and culture have proved to be powerful lures, despite the still-halting efforts to get past the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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