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GlobeSt.com UPDATE: City Gets 'Battery of Calls' From New Orleans

HOUSTON-The city's leading dealmakers rise to the call for a battery of requests from Gulf Coast businesses looking to get back up and running. Amid the mayhem, professionals agree on two points, including that it's only a short-term market pickup.

By Amy Wolff Sorter | Updated on September 06, 2005

HOUSTON-In the immediate wake of Katrina , much of the city’s real estate community agrees on two things: needs must be met and it’s only temporary.

There has been a battery of calls from New Orleans business owners, requesting everything from housing to business to industrial needs. “The real estate brokerage community is being deluged by calls from people who have businesses with every conceivable type of problem, from space to lease, to homes to live in, to property to buy,” says Michael Hill, owner and president of local firm, Michael Hill Properties Inc. “The real estate community in Houston has been mobilized to assist in whatever way they can.”

“We’ve seen everything from ‘hey I need temporary space just to get my phones working’ to ‘boy, we need to find a longer-term solution,” adds Chip Clarke, president of the Southwest region for locally based Transwestern Commercial Services Inc. “It’s been pretty fluid.”

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