Some Baton Rouge restaurants and grocery stores that remained open Wednesday night saw a surge in deliveries through third-party apps like Waitr—especially to local hotels, which were filled to 100% capacity with guests who evacuated from Hurricane Laura.
The Lemoine Company, a Bernhard Capital Partners portfolio company focused on general contracting and construction management, has acquired a majority financial interest in DCMC Partners, a Washington, D.C.-based company specializing in crisis management and disaster recovery.
Some residents of the Broadmoor, Cedarcrest-Southmoor, Runnymede and St. Regis Place subdivisions are frustrated over what they call a “misrepresentation” of their views regarding the proposed rezoning of a site at the corner of Old Hammond and Airline highways.
Baton Rouge gained 8,900 jobs from June to July, but lost 27,700 jobs from July 2019, according to preliminary July 2020 data released today by the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, which shows Louisiana’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at 9.4%.
The Metro Council has deferred for 60 days its vote on whether a property at the corner of Old Hammond and Airline highways should be rezoned to make way for a proposed Murphy Oil gas station. The gas station has been at the center of controversy in recent weeks, with members of the Sharpstowne and Sherwood Forest homeowners associations flooding Wednesday’s council meeting with 100-plus letters opposing its construction.