COLLEGE STATION (Texas A&M Real Estate Center) – Eighteen months after Hurricane Ike and during the most serious economic downturn since the Great Depression, Galveston is working to regain its footing. In an interview on this week’s Real Estate Red Zone podcast, Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc expresses optimism about the city’s future.
“We actually are moving relatively quickly for a city that’s been devastated,” LeBlanc told Bryan Pope, cohost of the Real Estate Center’s weekly podcast. “But I’d say in the next five years or so Galveston’s going to really re-emerge as a newly rebuilt community in many ways.”
LeBlanc talks about the city’s response to the larger-than-expected number of homeowners who applied for disaster assistance and about prospects for the city’s historic retail district, The Strand.


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