Built different: Six capital region builders on the instincts, influences and ideas reshaping what it means to construct well

There’s no single path into construction in Baton Rouge. The builders behind some of the region’s most notable residential and commercial projects have different backgrounds and different instincts, but a shared focus on building something more purposeful than what came before. For Russell Alleman of Manchac Homes, it started with childhood sketches—floor plans drawn on