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A Decade After Katrina: View 10 Homes Built Since the Storm

Filed under: Buying ZillowThis 2,800-square-foot West End home built in 2009 is on the market in New Orleans for $475,000. By Melissa Allison It was a decade ago this week that the levees failed in New Orleans, and Hurricane Katrina became one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history. The beloved city struggled mightily in the aftermath, battling flooding, bureaucracy, and mangled and rotting houses. Ten years on, there are

China's Wanda to buy Ironman triathlon organiser for $650 mln

Chinese real estate and entertainment giant Dalian Wanda will buy the organiser of Ironman extreme endurance contests for $650 million, it said on Thursday in its latest sporting acquisition. The deal for the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC) comes after Wanda bought a stake in Spanish football club Atletico Madrid and spent more than a billion euros on Swiss sports marketing group Infront. Wanda chairman Wang Jianlin — a multi-billionaire and