SunGas Renewables, an independent division of GTI Energy, today announced it’s considering investing $1.8 billion for a renewable low-carbon methanol production facility in Rapides Parish. 

Louisiana is one of several states in the South and Mountain West to experience an increase in manufacturing over the past year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. 

Baton Rouge may be an outlier in the latest housing trend as the national median price for an existing single-family home converges with the price of a newly built home.

Louisiana’s combined state and local sales tax rate of 9.547% is the second highest nationally, according to the Tax Foundation’s midyear report. 

Baton Rouge’s newest business to enter town is Sniffspot—an app best described as an “Airbnb for dogs” that allows homeowners to rent out their yards to dog owners where their pups can exercise. 

Theaters in Baton Rouge such as those operated by Cinemark and AMC are not immune from the current industry shutdown caused by the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes. As the strike prolongs, movie theaters across the nation face impending risk, Axios reports. 

NRK Construction founder and owner Norisha Kirts Glover has always considered being a connector one of the greatest assets in an entrepreneur’s arsenal. 

Bullfish Bistro, formerly located within earshot of LSU on Nicholson Drive, has relocated its Caribbean-Cajun fusion cuisine to Airline Highway, joining The Little Village in the Barringer Crossing shopping center. 

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development’s current strategy to alleviate Baton Rouge’s abysmal traffic is an ongoing multiyear Interstate 10 widening project, which will eventually add a new lane in each direction.