It’s taken 20 years for many residents of Holy Cross and the surrounding areas of the Lower 9th Ward to rebuild their homes after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures destroyed them.
The area struggled with a slower recovery than other neighborhoods, with much of the population displaced for years, if not permanently.
But as the area has been continuing to bounce back, residents are worried about a new potential threat bearing down on them: an industrial project taking shape at the Alabo Street Wharf that involves revitalizing old railway lines to transport grain out of the neighborhood on a 10-car train…