Press Release
This fall, residents of the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans, one of the areas hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, will reopen the neighborhood’s elementary school as a charter school. By the end of the year they hope to unveil the neighborhood’s renovated 21st century library complete with community meeting rooms and a coffee shop. And, they’re working toward returning 90 percent of the 7,000 residents back to homes by the end
of 2008.
All of these goals are the result of a team effort made possible by Shell, Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a very determined force of residents. For a neighborhood described as the “bottom of the bowl” in a bowl-shaped city, the thought of revitalizing Broadmoor after Hurricane Katrina seemed futile.