Region - Quarter 2

NEWSFLASH

Gripnr, a New Orleans-based Web3 technology company bringing tabletop games to the blockchain, announced its initial $2.5M investment round alongside its first 5E game and genesis NFT collection, The Glimmering. With The Glimmering’s launch, which is scheduled for Summer 2022,…

Photo Gallery

Consult and Connect At Consult and Connect we hosted site selectors from all over the country to show off everything our region has to offer. HBCU STEM Connect Internship For our HBCU STEM Connect internship, we partnered with regional companies…

Staffing Solutions

When Spencer Sens founded Complete Logistical Services in 2010, with the goal of providing on-site logistics services for ships at port, his guiding mantra was, “I can do it.” This was a mindset he used to position himself as a…

The Mission to Moon & Mars Begins at Michoud

It’s Monday April 4—the day after what was supposed to be the big day—and Lonnie Dutreix, the director of NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans East, exudes a natural sense of excitement and energy as he talks about the…

A Merging of the Minds

Letting the world know Louisiana is open for global business, the respective boards of the World Trade Center New Orleans (WTCNO) and Greater New Orleans, Inc. (GNO, Inc.) have approved an operational partnership between the two organizations. WTCNO will move…

H2theFuture: Powering South Louisiana

Strategically situated to take full advantage of the region’s greatest natural resource and most influential waterway in North American maritime commerce—the Mississippi River—South Louisiana’s Industrial Sector has been the economic heartbeat of the area for generations.  From the toe of…

Relationships. Relevance. Results.

Greater New Orleans, Inc. (GNO, Inc.) is the economic development nonprofit for the 10-parish region of southeast Louisiana. GNO, Inc. is built on a simple but broad mission: To create a region with a thriving economy and excellent quality of…

Letter from the President

Welcome to the Q2 issue of REGION Magazine! Together, we are experiencing a transformational moment in Greater New Orleans. Thanks to the hard work done in offices throughout southeast Louisiana, the shape of our regional economy is changing in front…