Original sentence: Morial also secured bond issues for street improvements, the Canal Street streetcar line, and an expansion of the city’s Convention Center.Tourism boomed during Marc Morial's mayoralty; the city’s downtown core saw the construction of 14 new hotels during his tenure
Edited sentence: By the end of Morial's second term, New Orleans was no longer viewed by corporate decision-makers as a viable location for large-scale white collar employment, economically impactful entrepreneurial activity was negligible, and city's economy had arrived at a condition of dangerous over-reliance on the tourism sector.Morial also secured bond issues for street improvements, the Canal Street streetcar line, and another expansion of the city’s convention center.Still, tourism boomed during Marc Morial's mayoralty; the city’s downtown core saw the construction of 14 new hotels during his tenure.Though the growth of the city's tourist and convention sector accelerated appreciably during Morial's mayoralty, boosted in part by the breakneck economic growth enjoyed by the United States by the late 1990s, Morial was arguably even less successful than his predecessor in attracting investment to other, more high-wage economic sectors.White collar employment continued to drain away from the city, led by Big Oil's ongoing reduction of its presence in downtown New Orleans and consolidation of activities in Houston