In a city with few economic development wins, the redevelopment of the former Cortana Mall site into a massive Amazon fulfillment center represents a significant victory for Baton Rouge. For starters, there’s the size and scale of the project—a 3.5 million-square-foot facility that will cost some $300 million to develop, process some 500,000 packages a
What will Amazon deliver?
The redevelopment of Cortana Mall is being hailed as an economic win, but there are costs.




