Iftikhar Ahmad, Director of Aviation at Louis Armstrong International Airport is ready to take off with an $860m overhaul of the airport. At the Lakefront airport Keith Sisson from new Southern Airways Express will fly you to the beach. Peter Pays it Forward with Clandestine New Orleans.

Greg Ensslen is founder of the Freret Street Market and one of the prime movers in bringing Freret Street from blight to boom. President of the Greater Mid City Business Association Josef Wright presides over the sprawling new hospital district and resurgence of Carrolton Avenue. Plus we hit the swamps with Lost Lands.

“….then one night in misty Baton Rouge the Tax Credit Fairy waved her magic wand and created Broadway South.” Dramatic tales about the resurgence of theater in New Orleans with Cassie Steck Worley and Bruce Hoefer form Le Petit Theater. Plus building a better waiter with Sidework.

Pink-dumpster diva, Simone Bruni aka Demo Diva, meets Green Coast Enterprises‘ Will Bradshaw. While the Diva’s knocking it down to the dirt Will’s rebuilding, notably commercial Broadmoor. Also on the lunch menu, cyber security company 504ensics.

Drew Bevolo’s family founded and has owned Bevolo Gas & Electric Lights since 1945. Burt Benrud’s family business, Cafe du Monde, started up in the 1860’s. These two standard bearers of New Orleans’ enduring icons talk about the present, the future, and entrepreneur NOLA Pie Guy.