An effort by an entity with ties to businessman Jim Bernhard that was trying to disqualify a competing company for a lucrative deal to provide heating and cooling services to buildings on the main LSU campus appears to have backfired.
Overall hotel occupancy in the Capital Region fell slightly more than 11% in 2020, a year that saw mass cancellations of events, meetings and travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Since documents filed earlier this month with the Planning Commission confirmed reports that Amazon is planning to acquire and redevelop the vacant mall property into a massive regional fulfillment center, there’s been an uptick in interest in the nearby property.