After Hurricane Katrina, Signs of Rebirth at New Orleans' City Park

Although Hurricane Katrina significantly altered the landscape of New Orleans' City Park, here and there are signs of rebirth.

New Orleans City Park chief executive officer Bob Becker understands and supports the decision to give the Superdome's reconstruction first priority. But it would be easy for him to feel resentful, given the comparably sluggish effort to restore City Park, a landmark in its own right. After all, just as the Superdome was reopening last fall, the Federal Emergency Management Agency team handling City Park's recovery was being fired. "We were initially assigned some folks from FEMA who, frankly, did not do a very good job," says Becker. "They had never dealt with anything of this magnitude and they didn't have experienced people who could interpret the laws well. So the writing of the damage claims went really slowly and was poorly done."

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