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Riverfront Development District

The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Adopts Development Agreement with River District Neighborhood Investors for a mixed-use development of 39-acres of land adjacent to the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center (NOENMCC) on the Mississippi Riverbank.

• Mixed Use development of 39 acres adjacent to the NOENMCC. 
• 900 mixed-income housing units, of which 450 will be affordable and workplace housing units.​
• Activate undeveloped urban riverfront land as a transformative asset for the New Orleans region and the state of Louisiana. ​
• Includes dining, retail, housing, and entertainment options- Top Golf announced.
• Incorporating the latest trends in urban planning with a focus on creating green spaces and community gathering places.​
• Shell will be relocating its New Orleans office into the new River District project and serve as the anchor tenant, located near the Convention Center along the Mississippi River.
• A model for diversity and equity that may serve as a national model for public/private partnerships.​

Artemis Rocket

• In the Fall of 2021, NASA’s Michoud facility in New Orleans East completed a 322-foot Space Launch System rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. 
• The rocket will be tasked with carrying the first woman and person of color to the Moon. 
• Michoud is known as “America’s Rocket Factory” and functions as the nation’s premiere site for manufacturing and assembling large scale space structures.

Haliade-X 12 MW offshore turbine

LM Wind Power’s Technology Center Americas facility (TCA), based on the NASA Michoud campus, has built the world’s longest offshore wind turbine blade at 107 meters in length.

Port of New Orleans Container facility

• $1.8 billion state-of-the art container facility on the lower Mississippi River. The new Louisiana International Terminal (LIT) in St. Bernard Parish will be able to serve vessels of all sizes, dramatically increasing Louisiana’s import and export capacity and stimulating the creation of more than 17,000 new jobs statewide by 2050, the Port of New Orleans estimates.

Louisiana Wind Energy Hub at UNO

The Beach at UNO, the University’s Research and Technology park, hosts the Gulf’s premier ecosystem for innovation, entrepreneurship, and education in offshore wind energy, which strives to accelerate the growth of the state’s wind energy innovation ecosystem.

H2theFuture Coalition Grant 

• EDA awarded a $50 million federal grant to H2theFuture to develop a new energy cluster in South Louisiana spanning the clean hydrogen life cycle for an end-use project at the Port of South Louisiana.
• New Energy Center of the U.S. (NEXUS) will be established at The Beach at UNO and serve as the physical and programmatic hub for a range of clean energy initiatives.
• UNO will also receive $6 million for a Maritime Green Energy Lab that will serve as a testbed and development center for hydrogen-fueled ships.

Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL) Oyster Shell Recycling Program

CRCL partners with more than 2 dozen restaurants in the New Orleans area, as well as two drop-off locations, to collect oyster shell and return it to the water, where oyster reefs slow erosion and create habitat for new oysters to grow. Since 2014, CRCL has recycled more than 13 million pounds of shell, making this Oyster Shell Recycling Program one of the largest such programs in the country. CRCL partners with coastal communities and volunteers to place the shell into biodegradable mesh bags and then place the shell in the water. They’ve built five reefs so far, and they're just getting started.

For a list of even more sustainability initiatives and green practices in New Orleans, visit our Sustainability Page here.