unCommon Construction opened The unCommon Campus, a new 12,000 sqft facility in New Orleans. It will serve as unCommon’s headquarters and support its high school apprenticeship programs, which enroll about 100 youth annually.
In October, Commercial Food Sanitation opened its new U.S. headquarters in Harahan! The facility features classrooms, labs, and training areas designed to teach best practices for safely designing, maintaining, and operating food production lines.
The 2025 GNOu Summit brought together more than 400 educators, employers, and community partners for a full day focused on the future of talent in Greater New Orleans. This year’s three panel tracks — Talent, Workforce, and STEM, including the formal integration of the STEM Summit — brought together leaders from across Louisiana to share insights, strengthen connections, and highlight the strategies driving our region’s competitiveness.
Greater New Orleans, Inc. teamed up with Meta for an exciting hands-on AI workshop for small business owners! About 40 local business leaders joined us to explore how Meta AI can boost efficiency across marketing, sales, operations, and more. Attendees learned expert tips for crafting better AI prompts, saw live demos creating on-brand content, built personalized brand voice guides, and explored practical AI workflows to scale their daily operations.
GNO, Inc. hosted our quarterly Investor Breakfast, featuring remarks from Mayor-Elect Helena Moreno on the budget deficit, regionalism, and economic growth. Tulane University President Mike Fitts also shared updates on the university’s plans for expansion and innovation.
