Get in the game: VGC, Video Game Company, is now open in Cortana Mall. The business, owned by Chris Jell, allows people to come in and play PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 games on flat screen TVs and pay by the hour or day. VGC is located near mall Entrance 1.
Putting properties to work: The federal government is exploring how to put Florida hurricane evacuees in foreclosed homes if a Katrina-like storm devastates the region and shelters, hotels and other housing options are full. Officials told the Associated Press it is an effort to find some benefit in the foreclosure crisis and keep people close to their homes and communities instead of scattering them around the country, which happened when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and other parts of coastal Louisiana and Mississippi almost four years ago. New Orleans has been slow to recover, partly because of the lost population. “When you have a diaspora that leaves the state, it’s very hard to get those guys back. You really want to prevent them from leaving the state,” says Jeff Bryant, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s federal coordinating officer for Florida. “We want to keep them in their same local community.”
