As it prepares to ask voters this fall to renew a 10-year, 10.6-mill dedicated tax, the Capital Area Transit System has released an economic impact study suggesting the bus system will generate some $1.6 billion in economic activity over the next decade.
What was surprising is that the third-largest grant award in Baton Rouge went—not to the Manship Theatre or the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, as you might expect—but to Baton Rouge Sports Restaurant Inc., a Bennington Avenue establishment better known by the name under which it does business, The Penthouse Club.
A little-known state law could become an effective tool in helping prosecutors go after the owners of properties that create a public nuisance and foster criminal activity.
The Broome administration is moving forward with plans to acquire more than 340 acres of low-lying undeveloped property in Baton Rouge’s floodplain in an effort to improve drainage throughout the parish.
Some four years after the city-parish sued local contractor Radu Cosman over his controversial $10,000 purchase of a prime tract of undeveloped land the case remains in legal limbo.