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The post-Katrina boom has taken most of the empty retail sites off of the market in Baton Rouge, but a few prime locations still remain.

“There’s just not that much out there anymore,” says Dottie Tarleton, an agent with Stirling Properties. “A lot of the empty big-box stores were used for FEMA stuff. Even now, a lot of the old grocery stores have been absorbed.”

It hasn’t taken long for that absorption to happen. The Sav-a-Center store on Greenwell Springs Road managed to attract an offer from an undisclosed buyer two weeks after the news came out of the store’s closing.

Those grocery stores have become a variety of things, from a distribution center for medical supply companies to a new Piggly Wiggly, and from a new headquarters for Amedisys to sites for new Wal-Mart Neighborhood Markets.

A couple of attractive spots still remain, such as an anchor at the Mall at Cortana. And a new site just went on the market with the recent closing of the Sav-a-Center grocery stores.

Here is a list of what some commercial Realtors say are the best empty properties currently on the market.