NOLABA BUSINESS EXCHANGE

Strategic Neighborhood Development Business Directory

Enjoy the sights and sounds of New Orleans, but remember the small businesses that are the thread of our cultural fabric. The New Orleans Business Alliance has launched a web page and app highlighting BIPOC and women-owned businesses within our strategic neighborhood corridors. NOLABA encourages residents and tourists to shop and eat locally to create a thriving economy for New Orleans.

All-in-one Business Directory
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How to Download the App

  1. Download the App by following the links below:
  1. Once the app has been downloaded, open it and follow the on-screen instructions to create an account or sign in. 
  2. Inside the app, choose the “channels” button in the bottom menu, and add the NOLABA channel. 
  3. Then tap “Tags” in the bottom menu.
  4. After a few minutes, NOLABA’s channel will populate, and you can scroll through the directory.

About the App

By downloading the app, you can access a listing of over 80 local businesses. The app features the businesses’ unique activations, events and promotions during the 2023 ESSENCE Festival of Culture™ presented by Coca-Cola® and beyond. As an offering starts, you will be notified in real-time.

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Our Strategic Neighborhood Development Approach

Through Strategic Neighborhood Development (SND), we focus NOLABA resources and economic development in neighborhoods that have endured historic disinvestment. Our SND team works with residents and business owners on decisions centered around leading-edge data and design projects for future-focused economic growth and ongoing expansion.

Gentilly

  • Ongoing Technical Assistance to Small Businesses and Gentilly Development District
  • Capacity Building: Partnership with UNO for a Community Development Finance Course: NOLABA provided scholarships to 40 residents to participate.
  • Community Engagement: Ongoing Neighborhood Convenings with Stakeholders

Gert Town & Hollygrove

  • Ongoing convenings with neighborhood stakeholders to address transportation, connectivity, business attraction, narrative correction, creative placemaking and more. 
  • Ongoing support for increasing economic vitality for businesses along Earhart Blvd. with the establishment of the Business and Merchant Association (Spring 2021).

Lower 9th Ward

  • Ongoing convenings with neighborhood stakeholders to address transportation, connectivity, business attraction, narrative correction, creative placemaking and more. 
  • Ongoing support for increasing economic vitality for businesses along Claiborne Ave. and St. Claude Ave.
  • Providing ongoing technical assistance and support for the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District to facilitate the revitalization of the residential and commercial areas and support implementation of the St. Claude Main Street project.

Algiers

  • In partnership with Algiers Economic Development Foundation, implementing Activation of Vacancy via Art which proposes temporary and permanent art interventions in the heart of Algiers. 
  • Ongoing convenings with neighborhood stakeholders to address transportation, connectivity, business attraction, narrative correction, creative placemaking and more. 
  • Ongoing support for increasing economic vitality for businesses along General De Gaulle, Meyers and Newton Street.
  • Providing ongoing technical assistance and support to partner organizations such as Algiers Development District and Old Algiers Main Street Corporation on place-based initiatives.

New Orleans East

  • Creative Placemaking: Public Art in New Orleans East - Altering the Perception of a Vital Corridor through Art and Engagement
  • Ongoing Technical Assistance to Small Businesses, New Orleans Regional Business Park and Lake Forest Blvd. Business Association (Spring 2021)
  • Louisiana Development Ready Project
  • Community Engagement: Ongoing Neighborhood Convenings with Stakeholders

Tremé: Claiborne Corridor Cultural Innovation District

  • Supported the establishment Claiborne Avenue Merchant and Business Association which connects businesses along key commercial corridors to customers and support opportunities
  • Capacity Building: Ongoing Technical Assistance to Small Businesses and Claiborne Ave. Merchant and Business Association
  • CID Marketplace: In 2020 which assisted 24 neighborhood-based businesses, over 100 culture bearers earned $160,000; 44 entrepreneurs earned over $370,000 and Adjacent businesses reported a 10% to 30% increase in sales on event days.
  • Community Engagement: Ongoing Neighborhood Convenings with Stakeholders

  • Gentilly

    • Ongoing Technical Assistance to Small Businesses and Gentilly Development District
    • Capacity Building: Partnership with UNO for a Community Development Finance Course: NOLABA provided scholarships to 40 residents to participate.
    • Community Engagement: Ongoing Neighborhood Convenings with Stakeholders

  • Gert Town & Hollygrove

    • Ongoing convenings with neighborhood stakeholders to address transportation, connectivity, business attraction, narrative correction, creative placemaking and more. 
    • Ongoing support for increasing economic vitality for businesses along Earhart Blvd. with the establishment of the Business and Merchant Association (Spring 2021).

  • Lower 9th Ward

    • Ongoing convenings with neighborhood stakeholders to address transportation, connectivity, business attraction, narrative correction, creative placemaking and more. 
    • Ongoing support for increasing economic vitality for businesses along Claiborne Ave. and St. Claude Ave.
    • Providing ongoing technical assistance and support for the Lower Ninth Ward Economic Development District to facilitate the revitalization of the residential and commercial areas and support implementation of the St. Claude Main Street project.

  • Algiers

    • In partnership with Algiers Economic Development Foundation, implementing Activation of Vacancy via Art which proposes temporary and permanent art interventions in the heart of Algiers. 
    • Ongoing convenings with neighborhood stakeholders to address transportation, connectivity, business attraction, narrative correction, creative placemaking and more. 
    • Ongoing support for increasing economic vitality for businesses along General De Gaulle, Meyers and Newton Street.
    • Providing ongoing technical assistance and support to partner organizations such as Algiers Development District and Old Algiers Main Street Corporation on place-based initiatives.

  • New Orleans East

    • Creative Placemaking: Public Art in New Orleans East - Altering the Perception of a Vital Corridor through Art and Engagement
    • Ongoing Technical Assistance to Small Businesses, New Orleans Regional Business Park and Lake Forest Blvd. Business Association (Spring 2021)
    • Louisiana Development Ready Project
    • Community Engagement: Ongoing Neighborhood Convenings with Stakeholders

  • Tremé: Claiborne Corridor Cultural Innovation District

    • Supported the establishment Claiborne Avenue Merchant and Business Association which connects businesses along key commercial corridors to customers and support opportunities
    • Capacity Building: Ongoing Technical Assistance to Small Businesses and Claiborne Ave. Merchant and Business Association
    • CID Marketplace: In 2020 which assisted 24 neighborhood-based businesses, over 100 culture bearers earned $160,000; 44 entrepreneurs earned over $370,000 and Adjacent businesses reported a 10% to 30% increase in sales on event days.
    • Community Engagement: Ongoing Neighborhood Convenings with Stakeholders
  • Tremé: Claiborne Corridor Cultural Innovation District
  • Algiers
  • New Orleans East
  • Lower 9th Ward
  • Gert Town & Hollygrove
  • Gentilly

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— ELLIS MARSALIS
1250 Poydras St., Suite 2150
New Orleans, LA 70113
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