A year after Lower 9th Ward and Holy Cross residents learned a grain terminal was coming to the Port property in their neighborhood, more than 100 residents packed into a community meeting Monday evening ahead of the facility's planned opening this fall .

As with previous community engagement meetings hosted by the Port of New Orleans, neighbors opposed to the project again gathered in protest to demand answers to questions about its impacts. But some residents were optimistic the economic benefit could reactivate the riverfront and bring new life to the neighborhood.

Spread out across five rooms Sanchez Multi-Service Center on Fats Domino Avenue, residents could go from one room to another to speak with representatives from the Port, Sunrise Foods International, the Canadian company t

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