On August 25, 2005, Donald Trump announced plans to build a 70-story high-rise in downtown New Orleans , which he referred to as a “sexy city.” Four days later, Hurricane Katrina hit. Trump and his family continued to pledge their commitment to the Trump Tower complex, saying they’d help the people of New Orleans rebuild their city, but the project never came to fruition. Twenty years later, the land it was supposed to stand on is still a parking lot.

“It’s going to be absolutely the most incredible building New Orleans has ever seen,” Trump said at the announcement. The building would have been the tallest in Louisiana and would have drastically changed the New Orleans skyline, in a city with very few tall buildings. Led by a group of Florida developers who did a licensing deal w

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