Smaller businesses struggle to recover from Katrina
For nearly 40 years, customers flocked to Bachemin’s Meat Market to buy spicy beef sausages, share recipes and swap gossip.
Today, exactly two years after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf Coast, the future of this neighborhood institution in the Seventh Ward is in doubt. A sign still proclaims it the “Home of Creole Hot Sausage.” But the shop has long been gutted, the walk-in fre”You can say, ‘If you build it, they will come,’ ” says Kevin Bachemin, a third-generation butcher whose grandfather bought the shop in 1969. But because mostneighborhood has yet to return, “I’m unwilling to take that chance with my kids, my wife, my house.”
New Orleans has always been a city of family-owned meat markets, dry cleaners, diners and corner stores. These businesses tended to be the ones most affected by Katrina because they had the least financial resources. Two years later, many of them still haven’t received the financial help they need.
Even as tourists and residents trickle back, they’re coming too late for thousands of businesses. Nearly 7,900 businesses in southeast Louisiana — including New Orleans — shut down between the second quarter of 2005 and the fourth quarter of 2006. The smaller the company, the higher the failur
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