The huge hotel has been very well received and includes the latest restaurant by local celebrity Chef John Besh, Borgne, as well as five other restaurants and food outlets, plus a huge sports bar with 42 screens.

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Duval ruled that because the Corps failed to maintain the shipping channel, erosion widened it, and its banks -- which helped protect the levees -- deteriorated, leaving the levees unprotected, undermined and more vulnerable to waves coming off Lake Borgne.

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