NEW ORLEANS - You’ve heard of tearing down the goalposts after a big win but this is ridiculous … After the College Football Playoff National Championship game on Monday night, crews began taking down the goalposts and removing the field…
NEW ORLEANS - Here's the week that was: Monday Gov. John Bel Edwards was inaugurated for his second term but even he was thinking of other things ... roughly 76,000 Fans of the LSU and Clemson college football programs gathered…
NEW ORLEANS - Centerplate, the hospitality company that provides food and drink for events at the Louisiana Superdome, provided a few sales figures from last Monday's College Football Playoff Championship Game: Final attendance at the game was 76,885. Centerplate planned…
NEW ORLEANS - The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, returning to the New Orleans Fair Grounds April 23 through May 3, announced a music lineup that includes The Who, Dead & Company, Stevie Nicks, Foo Fighters, Lizzo, Lionel Richie,…
NEW ORLEANS – The Westin New Orleans announced the completion of a $30 million revitalization spanning the entire hotel. The extensive architectural and interior redesign includes major renovations to all guestrooms and suites, lobby/check-in, and 30,000 square feet of meeting space. The…
METAIRIE - In Orleans Parish, it's illegal for parading Carnival krewes to throw anything of value from their floats. No so in Metairie, where Jefferson Parish is unveiling a new Mardi Gras throw that will be redeemable for discounts and…
NEW ORLEANS - Latter & Blum Inc., the Louisiana real estate company with over $4.5 billion in sales in 2019, has announced the appointment of Lacey Merrick Conway as chief executive officer, succeeding her father Bob Merrick, who had served in…
NEW ORLEANS - However much you know about glitter, it’s a safe bet you know less than New Orleanians Nori Pritchard, Lisette Constantin and Virginia Saussy. These three are the sparkle-obsessed co-owners of Nola Craft Culture, a year-old business devoted…
NEW ORLEANS - More than 100,000 college football fans (and possibly one polarizing U.S. president) are descending on New Orleans for the College Football Playoff National Championship scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 13 at the Louisiana Superdome. That’s a…
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Adding insult to injury after Sunday's Saints-Vikings playoff game, personal finance website WalletHub ranked Louisiana third worst and Minnesota No. 1 in its ranking of 2020's Best & Worst States to Raise a Family. WalletHub compared the 50 states…
NEW ORLEANS - Gulf Coast Bank & Trust will sponsor a New Orleans Chamber Power Lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14 at 1515 Poydras St. (fifth floor auditorium). All attendees will have the opportunity to give a…
METAIRIE - The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce will host an after-hours "business and breakfast" event at the Ruby Slipper at 2700 Metairie Road in Old Metairie. Attendees are invited to network at a table of eight for two 20-minute sessions. With…
NEW ORLEANS - Each year, hundreds of people visit Manny Randazzo King Cakes (3515 N. Hullen Street in Metairie) on the first day of Carnival to buy their first cake of the season. This year, a BizNewOrleans.com reporter stopped by…
NEW ORLEANS - Despite several major international stories dominating the headlines, it's been a slow news week in New Orleans and south Louisiana as locals count the minutes to LSU's next game, the Saints' next four games and the official…
NEW ORLEANS - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said it is planning on landing the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024. To reach that goal, it has been overseeing construction of what it describes…
Children’s Hospital New Orleans — part of the LCMC Health network — is in the midst of a $300 million capital improvement project that will bring new services to its Uptown campus. $25 million of that budget is devoted to…
NEW ORLEANS - For the 199th year, the North Pole-based Clause Industries is planning to distribute toys to the world's nearly 2 billion children - including more than 1 million kids living in Louisiana. The annual project is a massive…
Here's a look back at the week's top business news: Monday The Columns Hotel has a new owner. Jacques and Claire Creppel, the 20-room hotel's owners for the last 40 years, sold it for an undisclosed sum to Jayson Seidman,…
NEW ORLEANS - A team of local marketing professionals recently joined forces and decided the best way to promote their wares is to give them away for free. That was the inspiration for “Reboot the Brands,” a contest in which…
NEW ORLEANS - “Pop-up” cocktail bars have been popping up everywhere … and then sticking around. There have been cocktail events inspired by “Stranger Things” and “Star Wars.” Tiki “takeovers” are mainstays in cities around the world (including New Orleans).…
NEW ORLEANS - Stroll past the kids dancing with bottle caps on their shoes, sidestep the construction workers standing neck deep in a hole in the sidewalk and become momentarily mesmerized by the knowing gaze of the fortune teller at…
NEW ORLEANS - The Columns Hotel has a new owner. Jacques and Claire Creppel, the 20-room hotel's owners for the last 40 years, sold it for an undisclosed sum to Jayson Seidman, a developer who has recently created two hip…
NEW ORLEANS - From grass-eating carp in Baton Rouge to a suspected cyber attack in New Orleans, here are the area's most notable business stories for the week of Dec. 9-13, 2019: Monday, Dec. 9 The National Aeronautics and Space…
NEW ORLEANS - The city's computer systems were under threat from malicious software on Friday afternoon according to communications from City Hall and press reports. In an internal text message, the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness…
NEW ORLEANS - Children’s Hospital New Orleans -- part of the LCMC Health network -- is in the midst of a $300 million capital improvement project that will bring new services to its Uptown campus. $25 million of that budget…
NEW ORLEANS - On Tuesday, the outside accreditation agency for Loyola University New Orleans said that the school's year of financial probation has been lifted. The announcement from…
NEW ORLEANS - Over the last decade, Saenger Theatre General Manager David Skinner has had to oversee not one but two grand reopenings of the beloved 90-year-old Canal Street venue. The theater reopened in 2013 after a $52 million renovation…
NEW ORLEANS - There's an interesting battle brewing in the Warehouse District, where Chicago-based developer AJ Capital Partners is planning to build a Soho House hotel at 420 Julia Street, the site of the former Louisiana Children's Museum. Soho House began…
To keep your mind off Sunday's significant Saints game for a moment, here's a look back at the week's top business news: Monday, Dec. 2 The Associated Press reported that "Cyber Monday is still holding up as the biggest online…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The city known for 19th century Voodoo queen Marie Laveau and for the tarot card readers who tell fortunes in its historic French Quarter is about to play host to a different kind of sorcerer —…
