Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

OUT TO LUNCH finds the country's most entertaining finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him, sometimes for fine dining others for pizza. From CEO's to startups, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories and entrepreneurs of all stripes put aside the elevator pitch and the talking points and actually enjoy themselves. It's business, New Orleans style.
You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

9th and Lower 9th – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

September 20, 2018 Out to Lunch Comments Off on 9th and Lower 9th – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

It’s one thing to come up with an idea for a business and open it in Mid City or Uptown. It’s quite another undertaking to launch and run a business in the 9th Ward. Or the Lower 9th ward. That’s what Peter Ricchiuti’s guests on today’s Out to Lunch are doing.

Mark Sanders

Mark Sanders is the owner and CEO of Ninth Ward Nursery.

Rashida Ferdinand

Rashida Ferdinand is Executive Director of Sankofa Community Development Corporation.

Mark’s nursery is in its third year. That’s what is sometimes euphemistically called an “inflection point” – the point where business takes off. Or comes crashing down.

Rashida has been running Sankofa since 2008 and, with food markets, healthcare, and now a wetlands project, is a major contributor to the continuing transformation and preservation of the Lower 9th Ward.

Mark Sanders, Rashida Ferdinand

We don’t often consider the implication of business in the 9th Ward, but it could be a vital a part of New Orleans future growth.

Peter Ricchiuti

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Jill Lafleur.

Realtor Tracey Moore