With over 3,000 team members, the hospital is one of the largest employers in Jefferson Parish.

This left the old site vacant, and the idea of a park for Jefferson Parish was born.

Jefferson Parish, west of the city, had already allowed business owners to return and planned to allow full residential access beginning on Sunday.

"It was the largest commercial tract left in Jefferson Parish," he said.

From 1978 to 1986, he was an assistant district attorney for Jefferson Parish.

Jefferson Parish, he said at the time, "can't lock my people in."

Water pressure had now been restored in the majority of the Jefferson Parish.

The resulting flooding of Jefferson Parish has been estimated by insurance industry sources at $3 to $5 billion.

As of the 2000 census, there were 455,466 people living in Jefferson Parish.

He threatened to move his parade to adjacent Jefferson Parish.