Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business finance professor Peter Ricchiuti holds court over lunch at Columns in Uptown New Orleans. Peter's lunch guests are New Orleans business people, from startups to CEO's, from artists to tech entrepreneurs, musicians to movers-and-shakers. New Orleans is on everybody's list as a great place to party but it's also on many lists of the best place to start a business. Peter's deeply knowledgable and equally levity-laden approach to business conversation neatly makese sense of the Crescent City's contradictions.

Back of Town Comes Back – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

June 11, 2015 Out to Lunch Comments Off on Back of Town Comes Back – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

When people talk about which parts of New Orleans are desirable, you often hear the phrase, “block by block.” Meaning, in blighted parts of town there are bright spots. And in the nicer parts of town there are areas that are not so great.

Two parts of town that have been commercially block by block are the mostly empty lots around Loyola Avenue near the Superdome, and the largely abandoned Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard.

Today, that’s all changing.

matt schwartz

Matt Schwarz’s The Domain Companies is investing a quarter of a billion dollars into developing a downtown wasteland into a commercial and residential community called The South Market District.

linda pompa

Linda Pompa is leading the Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard Merchants and Business Association on a rapidly rejuvenating central city commercial corridor.

matt schwartz, linda pompa, peter ricchiuti

Linda Pompa and Matt Schwarz join Peter Ricchiuti on this edition of Out to Lunch with the lowdown on just how the back of town is coming back. 

Realtor Tracey Moore