We just want to make sure that everything is right as people come back, ... You want them to have the full New Orleans experience. |
We were surprised at the announcement, because it requires a very complex business calculation. It has an awful lot of hurdles at the state level. |
What he did today was to make a very prudent business decision, ... With the tax base decimated for the next six to seven months ...(the city) has lost its basic revenue streams and customer base. You've got to pare down to a basic core and rebuild incrementally. |
When you see estimates of New Orleans not getting power back or water flowing for six or eight months, that is not the part of the city where tourists go. |
When you spend $27,000 to send your child to Kingswood-Oxford, you are sending them for one reason only - to prepare them for the next level of education. That's it. So, our expectation is that our children have to compete for the same spots at the same schools. |
You're looking at 50,000 people coming into the city for the game. You're looking at hotel rooms over a minimum of three days for those 50,000 people. So that's huge. |
[In addition to providing a] reaffirmation of our culture and history, ... put people back in our hotels, back in our restaurants. |