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New Directory of Louisiana Projects

The World Trade Center is frequently asked by companies in this country and abroad for a list of projects that are planned and under development in connection with the rebuilding and economic recovery of south Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

These inquiring companies are aware that there are billions of dollars of construction of all types going on or planned in the region and their request is always simple: please send us a list of the projects.

However, we are not aware of any such comprehensive list that is available from a single source, and so the WTC is meeting this need by preparing a detailed list of projects planned or underway throughout the state that we are able to identify. We seek your cooperation and assistance in this effort.

The student interns working with the WTC’s 1st Stop for International Business Services (www.wtcno.org/1ststop), in cooperation with Louisiana Economic Development, Greater New Orleans Inc., and other organizations, are now in the process of compiling a “Directory of Louisiana Projects” to include projects that are in the planning or development stage, whether they be new ones or in the rebuilding or renovation phase. The list includes residential housing projects, apartment and condo developments, office buildings, stores and shopping malls, hotels, levees and floodwalls, roads, port facilities, schools, hospitals, churches, industrial and other projects of all types.

If your company or any other entity you know has a project and would like to list it free of charge in the new Directory, please complete and submit the brief online form. The Directory will be available and posted on the WTC website in the next few weeks(www.wtcno.org), and we encourage you to access it if you wish to pursue new business opportunities in any of the areas noted above.

The Directory will include contact information for each project, estimated dollar value, the status, timing, needed inputs (such as financing), and other relevant information of interest to prospective U.S. and foreign investors, joint venture partners, contractors, engineering firms, and suppliers of building materials and other goods, services, technologies, labor, and capital.

The Directory will be widely distributed electronically, including to all of the nearly 300 World Trade Centers in 85 countries that service more than 750,000 businesses engaged in international commerce. It also will be distributed to the 400-plus delegates expected to attend the 2007 General Assembly of the World Trade Centers Association to be held in New Orleans October 21-24. This is the most important event on the Association’s annual calendar and will be the first time in the Association’s 37-year history for it to be held in New Orleans.