Economy
Mitch Landrieu on New Orleans's 'Economic Miracle'
The mayor on why his city is now a magnet for traditional businesses and startups alike.
This article is the first in a weeklong series on New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS—Things are looking up for this city. Partly, that’s because anything is an improvement over the post-Katrina hellscape. But from tragedy arose opportunity: New Orleans has used the hurricane recovery effort to confront some of its longtime political, economic, and social pathologies—the problems that seemed to leave it on the bottom of those worst-in-the-country lists.