Business What happened to Baton Rouge’s Healthy Food Retail Initiative? By Holly Duchmann - April 6, 2023 (iStock) FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailPrint A three-year initiative launched by Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration in late 2019 to recruit new grocery stores to underserved neighborhoods in the parish sunsetted last year without any deals for a new store. Already an INSIDER? Sign in.