NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans hospitality industry celebrated the return of parades and visitors for the 2022 Carnival season. New Orleans & Co. reported that the city's 26,000 downtown hotel rooms were 85% full on Saturday, which is only…
NEW ORLEANS — Most of the city turned its attention to Carnival this week, but there was still time for business. Here are the top stories: The New Orleans Local Organizing Committee — led by Tulane University, the University of…
NEW ORLEANS — Here are the week’s top business stories: Loyola University New Orleans President Tania Tetlow has accepted a new role as president of Fordham University in New York City. Fr. Justin Daffron, S.J., Loyola’s Vice President of Mission…
NEW ORLEANS — The Idea Village, a nonprofit business accelerator, has announced that New Orleans Entrepreneur Week (NOEW) will return with in-person experiences in 2022 after being virtual in 2021 and cancelled just a few weeks before opening in 2020 due…
NEW ORLEANS — On Friday, the front page of the city’s daily newspaper’s website looked like a casino homepage — complete with huge banner ads and articles on how to place bets — as mobile sports betting went live in…
NEW ORLEANS — Here are the week’s top business stories: North Carolina-based retirement and investment advisory firm Captrust Financial Advisors announced its recent acquisition of Crescent Capital Consulting, headquartered in New Orleans. Crescent provides investment management services to institutions as…
NEW ORLEANS — Here, from staff and wire reports are the week’s top business stories: Entrepreneur Robert Thompson’s hospitality firm Angevin & Co. has partnered with Cleveland-based real estate investment company GBX Group to purchase the Whitney Hotel from hotelier…
NEW ORLEANS — Here are some of the week’s top business stories: Boyd Gaming Corporation has announced plans to develop a new Treasure Chest Casino facility in Kenner. The gaming company plans to replace the existing riverboat casino with a…
NEW ORLEANS — Benson Capital, owned by Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson, announced on Dec. 16 that it has acquired Corporate Realty Inc., a commercial real estate company based in New Orleans that serves the Gulf South. Benson’s investment…
NEW ORLEANS — Area business leaders are optimistic about their organization’s financial outlook in 2022 but clear-eyed about the dangers to the greater New Orleans economy posed by the uncertain trajectory of the pandemic and the prospect of more hurricanes…
NEW ORLEANS — Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week’s top business stories: Tulane University, along with developers 1532 Tulane Partners Inc. and SKK Opportunity Zone Fund I, announced a new phase in the redevelopment of the former…
NEW ORLEANS — Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week's top business stories: President Joe Biden has chosen as supervisor of his $1 trillion infrastructure plan Mitch Landrieu, who as New Orleans mayor pushed the city into recovery…
NEW ORLEANS — Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week’s top business stories: New Orleans-based beverage company Big Easy Bucha has announced its acquisition by Beliv, a Latin American bev-tech company with 28 brands in 30 countries. Launched…
NEW ORLEANS — News broke this week that the Cint Group, a Swedish market research firm, has agreed to buy New Orleans-based analytics company Lucid for roughly $1.1 billion. Cint, which listed on the Stockholm and NASDAQ exchanges in February,…
NEW ORLEANS — Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week’s top business stories: Louisiana’s legislative leaders balked Thursday at a $63 million debt forgiveness plan for the Superdome’s oversight board that Gov. John Bel Edwards’ administration framed as…
NEW ORLEANS — Drew Brees hasn’t lost many competitions in New Orleans, but the contest to redevelop the former Six Flags/Jazzland site in New Orleans East is one of those rare cases. After the Brees-backed proposal to convert the 227-acre…
NEW ORLEANS - On Thursday night, billionaire Richard Branson hosted a series of events — including a short downtown parade featuring the St. Augustine Marching 100 — to promote the opening of Virgin Hotels New Orleans on Baronne Street. The…
NEW ORLEANS — Here are the week’s top business stories: This week, Saints owner Gayle Benson has revealed her succession plan for the NFL’s Saints and NBA’s Pelicans. The plan calls for the sale of the team to a buyer…
NEW ORLEANS - Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week’s top business stories: Procore Technologies Inc., a provider of construction management software, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Levelset, a New Orleans tech company that created…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are the week's top business stories: Getting Messy Frustration increased citywide as post-Ida debris and trash still hasn't been collected from neighborhood streets. Regional leaders have failed to find emergency contractors who can get the job…
NEW ORLEANS - The National Hurricane Center warned that Tropical Storm Ida could intensify and hit New Orleans as a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. “The forecast track has it headed straight towards New Orleans.…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are the week’s top business stories: Hotels Debut Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences New Orleans is now open in the former headquarters of the World Trade Center building at the foot of Canal Street. In…
NEW ORLEANS - Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week’s top business stories: Louisiana on Monday reinstated a mask mandate in all indoor locations, including schools and colleges, as the state struggles with a fast-growing fourth surge of…
NEW ORLEANS - Here, from the staff and wire reports, are the week’s top business stories: The New Orleans Saints and Caesars Entertainment have officially announced the formation of a 20-year naming-rights partnership that will give the NFL team’s home…
NEW ORLEANS - Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week’s top business stories: Louisiana lawmakers ended their historic veto session Wednesday after two days in which Republicans failed to overturn any of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ bill rejections,…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are the week's top business stories: Breeze Airways, the new U.S. carrier from JetBlue founder David Neeleman, has launched from New Orleans to 10 destinations. The low-cost startup, headquartered in Utah, will focus on flights between…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are the top business stories from this slow, sleepy summer week: St. Bernard Economic Development Foundation has announced that St. Bernard Parish Sheriff James Pohlmann and the St. Bernard Parish Council have unanimously approved Chalmette Refining’s…
NEW ORLEANS - Here are the week's top business stories: The Port of New Orleans has issued a Request for Proposals for program management/program controls services for the development of its hoped-for Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) container facility in St.…
NEW ORLEANS - Here, from staff and wire reports, are the week's top business stories: The City of New Orleans announced a plan to replace outdated steam-powered turbines as the primary source of power at Sewerage & Water Board of…
NEW ORLEANS - This week, Louisiana lawmakers completed a nine-week legislative session during which federal pandemic aid and surprisingly robust state tax collections led to an unusual circumstance: a surplus of money to spend. Representatives spent their time deciding how…
