The City of New Orleans and the New Orleans Business Alliance (NOLABA) launched a $350,000 pilot program to support businesses and commercial corridors within Strategic Neighborhood Development focus neighborhoods (Gentilly, Treme, Algiers, New Orleans East, Lower 9, Hollygrove and Gert Town). These communities have experienced decades of disinvestment, leaving surrounding businesses more vulnerable to economic and environmental disasters, such as the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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City of New Orleans Receives $500K Grant from National Coastal Resilience Fund for New Orleans East Landbridge Project
The City of New Orleans announced that it has received a $500,000 grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s National Coastal Resilience Fund for the City’s New Orleans East Landbridge project.
Dixie Beer to become Faubourg Brewing Company
The iconic Louisiana brewery, Dixie Beer, which has been around since 1907, will now be known as Faubourg Brewing Company after the nationwide uproar over racial discrimination sparked the company earlier this summer to ditch the name associated with the Confederacy. Read more.
nola.com | New Orleans Film Fest: Six Flags, zydeco and coronavirus changes highlight first week of screening
“Closed for Storm” (dir. Jake Williams | 57 mins)
A concise history of the shuttered Jazzland/Six Flags New Orleans theme park, which never reopened after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. Archival footage and interviews with people who worked and/or played there.
Outdoor screening: Noon Monday, Nov. 9 on the Lafitte Greenway.
Virtual cinema: Available beginning 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8
Watch the trailer at https://www.closedforstorm.com/.
NEW ORLEANS FILM FESTIVAL
WHEN: Friday through Nov. 22
Tickets: $8 to $10 per screening for New Orleans Film Society members ($10 to $15 for nonmembers). Multi-screening passes available.
Details: neworleansfilmsociety.org.
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nola.com | Entergy’s 100-acre solar plant nears completion in New Orleans East
Average residential customer to see increase of $1.50 a month when solar plant comes online
October 29, 2020. A new solar power plant in New Orleans East will generate enough electricity to run 3,100 homes when it gets up and running, part of a broader plan by Entergy to diversify its power generation sources.
The rows and rows of solar panels, which sit on 100 acres inside of the NASA Michoud Assembly Site, are being constructed by Entergy New Orleans and its partner, DEPCOM Power.
When the 20-megawatt plant is complete in November, it will deliver renewable energy directly to two distribution feeders at Entergy’s Sherwood Forest substation, sending that solar power out to all utility customers.
The project is a realization of Entergy’s larger push to add a mix of solar, nuclear and natural gas-fired power sources to its portfolio in the coming years. Entergy’s $210 million, 128-megawatt gas-fired power station in New Orleans East began operating in May.
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