Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corporation

Aerial View of Pontchartrain Park
January 1955
Photograph by Industrial Aerial Photos
From the City Archives of the New Orleans Public Library

Pontchartrain Park is an important community in the history of New Orleans.  It represents a crucial transformation of racial politics as a recreational park and housing development built for African-Americans during the Jim Crow--"separate, but equal"--era.

Pontchartrain Park's recreational facilities and homes were devastated by the flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina. 

The Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corporation (PPCDC) is a non-profit organization formed by former residents of Pontchartrain Park that wished to have a voice in the planning and redevelopment of their community.  The PPCDC serves as the planning, business and financial interface between the development and planning organizations and the residents of the Pontchartrain Park community.

We hope that our web site will provide more information on the important history of our community, our organization and our projects.  Please contact us if you need more information or have any questions we may answer for you.