Neighborhood Groups
Our mission is to help the Algiers community grow and prosper by being a catalyst for economic development that provides a vibrant business environment.
A historic community of Old Carrollton, our neighborhood was once one of New Orleans most coveted cultural treasures. In its heyday, its population consisted of pensioners, mostly retired from the old rail line and Port of New Orleans, earning us the name, Pensiontown. Devastated by mass abandonment and neglect since…
The Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood Empowerment Network Association (NENA) was established in the aftermath of Katrina to play a lead role in rebuilding New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. Organized and controlled by residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, NENA addresses not only the immediate recovery needs created by the storm’s…
We are a non-profit agency seeking to revitalize the main street through Central City, at one point the thriving Dryades street, now the Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. Until the early 70’s, the area served as one of the premier areas of African American commerce in the Jim Crow South. Over…