PLAN TO REOPEN FRENCH QUARTER IN 90 DAYS; SCALED-DOWN MARDI GRAS
Fri Sep 09 2005 19:52:35 ET
The New Orleans business establishment-in-exile has set up a beachhead in a government annex building here, located across the street from the state Capitol.
It is here that organizations like the New Orleans Convention and Visitor's Bureau have begun to plot the rebirth of the city, the NEW YORK TIMES plans to report on Saturday.
In the cramped offices and hallways of this building, called the Capitol Annex, and continuing into the evening at watering holes and eateries scattered around Baton Rouge, New Orleans's business leaders and power brokers are concocting big plans, the most important of which is reopening the French Quarter in 90 days, the paper's Gary Rivlin is planning to report on Page One.
Other schemes being discussed include staging a scaled-down version of Mardi Gras, scheduled to take place at the end of February 2006.
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