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The school improvements cost $68,612 and are expected to save the school $26,438 per year in energy costs, so the green investment will be recouped in about 2.5 years, program assistant Linda Morgano said.

Source: City Business

MS&R donated the time and talent to restore the Alvar Street Branch Library. Located in the Bywater Neighborhood of New Orleans, it is the first library severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina to reopen.

Source: MS&R

The first foreign language-based charter school in Louisiana, the International School of Louisiana, has leased the former Andrew Jackson Elementary School building at Coliseum Square, returning to the city and giving it space to accept a larger number of its students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Source: Times-Picayune