THE "NEW" NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans - post Katrina- is a city in a state of  transformation and renewal. This gentrification is being both welcomed and shunned simultaneously by residents, this is merely part of urban development- but one must be mindful to tread lightly on the cities rich heritage. A few noteworthy changes to the city recently:

1. Forbes named New Orleans third best for growth in information jobs.
2. Music and art thriving and expanding in St Claude Corridor / Marigny / Uptown. 
3. The metro New Orleans entrepreneurship rate—at 471 startups per 100,000 adults during the three year period from 2011-13—is 64 percent higher than the national average, and 40 percent higher than other fast-growing Southern metros.
4. Venture capital funding, which is critical to innovation and economic cluster development, has doubled in metro New Orleans from $16 per capita in 2010 to $32 per capita in 2014. But this is only a fraction of the venture capital going to startups in competitive metro Austin, where funding has consistently been over $100 per capita since 2006.