The Summer of Super Bowl is under way in New Orleans. City and state leaders are working on infrastructure improvements ahead of February's big game, and the state-appointed Super Bowl Czar is working to ensure that work gets done on time.
"There's a lot of pressure to make hay while the sun is shining, literally, because there is going to be something that knocks us off our feet for a little while," GNO, Inc. CEO and Super Bowl Czar Michael Hecht said to WWL's Newell Normand. "There is going to be some type of black swan event. We have to assume that there's going to be something--we don't what it's going to be--that will impede our progress for some number of weeks."
However, Hecht says the current pace of the work is promising.
"If we continue at this pace right now, we're going to be in good shape," Hecht said. "The plan is to get the work done by the end of December, shut it down, and then give ourselves a month buffer to do the final cleanup, final plantings, final grafitti remediation, and then roll into the beginning of February with the city looking, feeling, and even smelling great and then for us to enjoy the benefits for decades after, potentially."
The Super Bowl is scheduled to played in the Superdome on February 9.
