Parks Build Community: Helping to Revitalize Lafitte Greenway The grand opening of the 15-acre Lemann Playground By Paula M. Jacoby-Garrett T his year's NRPA Parks Build Community project is located along the Lafitte Greenway in New Orleans, Louisiana. Connecting the French Quarter to City Park, the greenway had been an essential travel and shipping corridor from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain for more than two centuries. Since the mid-2000s, local community members and elected officials have focused their efforts on reinvigorating the area after years of decline and the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. 68 Parks & Recreation | D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 7 | W W W. PA R K S A N D R E C R E AT I O N . O R G