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.

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

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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