Home Depot gives La. store a hurricane makeover
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A year after Hurricane Katrina,  retailer Home Depot Inc.  is hoping to strengthen  construction efforts in the U.S. Gulf by reopening a store in  one of Louisiana's hardest-hit areas.
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Scott Oliver didn't need government help to rebuild his beachfront property. Using his own money, he built a concrete compound to replace the wood-frame home Hurricane Katrina smashed to bits.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower   Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd   a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing   high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc , pressured by continued weakness in the U.S. housing market, is expected to ramp down new-store openings this year and boost spending to maintain existing outlets, an analyst said on Friday.
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Second-largest home improvement retailer continues to produce strong results.
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ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- With another hurricane season upon us, the chemical industry is prepared to build on the successful actions taken last year to weather devastating hurricanes like Katrina and Rita.
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For a few hours Monday night, Harold Johnson hoped to forget about the storm that wrecked his home a year ago. He planned to sit with his neighbors outside his government-issue trailer and watch the New Orleans Saints' first home game since Hurricane Katrina on TV.
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Running last-minute errands as Hurricane Ivan bore down, Melissa Frick suddenly knew exactly how she'd keep her car safe from flooding &#151; park it in a multilevel garage.
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A year after the Superdome became an emblem of the devastation wreaked upon New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina, the National Football League's Saints will return to their refurbished home.
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Desperate New Orleans-area officials touted Chinese-made homes and building supplies on Tuesday as a way to speed up the slow recovery of their storm-stricken city.
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The commercial real estate marketplace weathers the storm.
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CHALMETTE, Louisiana  - Eileen Schwartz stands on   the sidewalk in front of her one-story house with new, blue   siding, refurbished after the biggest environmental disaster   created by Hurricane Katrina.
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With solid concrete walls and roofs and  laminated glass windows protected by storm shutters, a house  can be built to withstand nearly any hurricane. But very few  are.
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By Tom Wilemon, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Mar. 7--BILOXI -- The Biloxi City Council chose a firm to devise a new post-Katrina comprehensive plan Tuesday and also discussed widening the time frame for homeowners to build back at lower elevations.
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Home improvement retailer Home Depot  Inc , pressured by the slumping housing market, on  Thursday said it would cut 500 jobs at its Atlanta store  support center, or about 10 percent of the headquarters staff.
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ATLANTA -- The Home Depot Inc. , the world's largest home improvement chain, yesterday distanced itself further from the strategies advanced by former chief executive Bob Nardelli, saying it will consider shedding a unit serving contractors, builders, and other business customers.
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Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco went to New Orleans last August to oversee the opening of the city's first housing-assistance center aimed at people whose homes were destroyed or damaged by Hurricane Katrina. "This is not just a real estate transaction, but an emotional transaction as we...