Burnell Cotlon is the owner of Burnell’s Lower 9th Ward Market, which one of the very few businesses still surviving in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. But in others, like New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward, recovery still seems elusive. We may not have lived in mansions, palaces, but the people in the Lower Ninth Ward owned their property. So that made a difference between then and coming back with Katrina.”Guillemet is a client service specialist with the Lower Ninth Homeownership and the president of the Lower Ninth Neighborhood Association. The Sankofa vegetable farm in the Lower Ninth Ward was a vacant lot before being turned into a useful urban farming area.