Bywater Community Development Corporation promotes area

Nonprofit partners with LSUs BR PRessworks to promote Bywater area using SCVNGR Oct. 18, 2012: 10:00 a.m. News Facts The Bywater Art Walk will be Nov. 10, 2012 in the Bywater area of New Orleans. Bywater Community Development Corporation and BR PRessworks are putting on an event using SCVNGR. The LSU student public relations firm BR PRessworks is only one of four groups given a grant to work with SCVNGR to engage local nonprofits. SCVNGR is a geolocation-based smartphone application designed to engage communication between users and their locations. Quotations The goal for the art crawl is to get the Bywater area and their events on the map. Many people are unaware of all the culture this area has brought to New Orleans, La. - Cindy Denny, President High Hat Management This is such a modern technology we get to use. We will put Bywater back in the spotlight. -- Jayme Tumminello, BR PRessworks Multimedia Video (1 min 5 secs) Vaughn's in the Bywater Video (6 min 26 secs) Voodoo in Bywater Video (1 min) http://Desire Market Bywater Related Links Bywater Community Development Corporate website Bywater Neighborhood Association Keywords and Tags Bywater, New Orleans, SCVNGR, nonprofit, Bywater Community Development Corporation, BR PRessworks, Bywater Neighborhood Association, Art Walk About Bywater Community Development Corporation and the Bywater Area Bywater Community Development Corporations main goal is to support the New Orleans Bywater area by encouraging local resident participation in community events. Bywater hosts a variety of festivals including Chazfest, N.O. Daiquiri Festival and the Mirliton Festival. Bywater Community Development Corporation is run by a board of directors including: John Guarnieri, chairman; Skip Henderson, co-founder; Anne Gisleson, board member; Athena Antippas, board member and Galen M. Hair, board member. For More Information Kirsti Ortego Account liasion Phone: 337-212-1896 Email: kirstiortego@gmail.com

How Bywater received its name is unsure. Some people claim it came from an old telephone exchange, the winning entry of a contest amongst high school students to name the area was Bywater, or in 1947, businessmen started to advertise the area as Bywater. Wherever the name came from, it stuck. http://www.wwltv.com/news/Bywater-Continues-To-See-Real-Estate-Boom-173983261.html