Poydras Street

Um, they have a metric they use across the country, and to be a metropolitan statistical area, there has to be movement of people.

So think about someone who lives in St. Tammany driving to their job in a high-rise office building on Poydras, right? That's the type of activity.

And because the North Shore has grown up so beautifully, they've created their own economy that is less dependent on New Orleans, which led the federal government to pull them out of our metropolitan statistical area.

That's damaging.

They're doubling down on New Orleans' future.

Charity Hospital is not about a building, and, and it's not about filling up.

There's lots of buildings Tulane could take on Poydras to fill that space.

It's about a renaissance of downtown New Orleans.

But, um, you bring Irma Thomas back out to do the anthem.

You have a parade down Poydras.

You know, you second line with Steve Gleason and Drew Brees, and you bring Gleason out to do the Who Dat chant, and, you know, his son raises his hand for him, and all the, the 2006 players are out there kind of giving Steve, you know, a little headbutt and, um, in support.

I mean, and then on, on third play from scrimmage, you give up a touchdown to Bijan Robinson, and then Kendra Miller fumbles, and you're down fourteen-nothing, and you just never got off the mat.

So, you know, certainly when the boats come in or they leave, we get a lot of traffic.

But I would say about two-thirds of the people walking through the Riverwalk, you know, we're at the end of Poitiers and Canal, are tourists.

And they're either there visiting, you know, driving in, or they're there from the cruise ships, or they're there for the convention center.

Okay, so we link tourism.