The bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle's cabin stood. Between the stream and the hut lay a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou ...

The former route became an "abandoned distributary," a long narrow bayou broken off from the river ... Metairie was just a country road, lined with cabins and picket-fenced farms.

Bayou Phoenix LLC is the development group that won the city's approval to redevelop the abandoned Six Flags site in New Orleans East. The company beat out a rival group backed by Drew Brees.

Bayou Phoenix Founder Troy Henry says you will soon see cranes in the sky at the site which has been abandoned since Hurricane Katrina 19 years ago. “You’ll see them in the air probably in the ...