With reasonably high employment, the local economy is proving to be quite resilient, and New Orleans's commercial real estate listings market is firming up with the inflow of Katrina related recovery dollars. Rebuilding the city into one of the largest ports of the world serving the maritime and energy industries will lead to strong growth in the New Orleans industrial and marina commercial investment properties. Much of the New Orleans commercial real estate listings market has been reset ? providing an attractive greenfield for real estate investors to stake their claim.