Main Street Resilience Plan

Final Documents

• Main Street Resilience Plan
• Appendix A: Market Analysis
• Business Continuity Guide
• Business Hardening Guide

What is resilience?

• Capacity of cities to function so that the people living and working in the cities - particularly the poor and vulnerable - survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they encounter
• Capacity to anticipate significant multi-hazard threats, to reduce overall the community's vulnerability to hazard events, and to respond to and recover from specific hazard events when they occur
• Capacity to cope with and recover from present-day risks
• Capacity to adapt to changing conditions, including uncertain, unknown, or unpredictable risks

What are the project goals?

• Develop a share definition of resilient commercial corridors for New Orleans
• Create a measurable and actionable methodology for assessing the resilience of commercial corridors or Main Streets
• Apply methodology to 6 corridors in the city and develop individualized recommendations for each to address resiliency gaps
• Develop how-to guides for businesses for improving resiliency as applied to business operations and for businesses/property-owners for improving building resilency

What corridors are being studied?

• Alcee Fortier Boulevard (Chef Menteur Highway to Michoud Lagoon)
• Broad Street (Tulane Avenue to Bayou Road)
• Newton Street (Teche Street to Behrman Avenue)
• Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard (Philip Street to Calliope Street)
• Saint Bernard Avenue (North Claiborne Avenue to Broad Street)
• Saint Claude Avenue (Elysian Fields Avenue to Press Street)
• Main Street Resilience Corridor Map

Calendar of Events

PROJECT ADVISORY MEETINGS

• Meeting #1 - March 31, 2015
• Meeting #2 - May 5, 2015
• Meeting #3 - June 30, 2015
• Meeting #4 - September 16, 2015

CORRIDOR WORKSHOPS

• Alcee Fortier Boulevard
  • Workshop #1
• Broad Street
  • Workshop #1
  • Workshop #2
• Newton Street
  • Workshop #1
  • Workshop #2
• Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard
  • Workshop #1
  • Workshop #2
• Saint Bernard Avenue
  • Workshop #1
  • Workshop #2
• Saint Claude Avenue
  • Workshop #1

BUSINESS WORKSHOPS

(Meeting Materials)

• Meeting #1 - June 30, 2015
• Meeting #2 - July 1, 2015
• Meeting #3 - July 2, 2015