Pontchartrain Park

Learn more about how the residents of Pontchartrain Park banded together to help rebuild their community on CNN In America's "New Orleans Rising" at 8 p.m. ET Saturday and Sunday.
(CNN) -- My first visit to Pontchartrain Park is on a big day in New Orleans East. I'm met by actor Wendell Pierce, the president of Pontchartrain Park's Community Development Corp., for the opening of the first model home.
"The Park," nestled between Lake Pontchartrain and the Industrial Canal, was devastated af [ ... ]

Development Spearheaded By Actor Wendell Pierce (wdsu.com)-- Five years after Hurricane Katrina, there are signs of new life in Gentilly, where new homes are going up as part of the Pontchartrain Park Community Development Project.

The project is spearheaded by award-winning actor Wendell Pierce, a New Orleans native and star of the HBO show "Treme."

For Cheryl Johnson, it has been a long road, but she is finally going back to the place she calls home -- Pontchartrain Park.

"I'm back! Finally, [ ... ]

(fox8live.com)
New Orleans - For five decades Josie Lewis and Lillian Jones have shared great conversation on their street. Lately they have even more to discuss. "It means everything to me, I couldn't wait to leave…Georgia to get back home," Lewis said Wednesday as she laughed.
Jones added, "I wanted to be back, be back home and where my children, they're 50 and over but they're still my children and my grandchildren and they're here, so I want to be back home."
Both are back in Po [ ... ]