Economic Development

Outgoing Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul and Mayor Sharon Weston Broome are scheduled Wednesday to give the Metro Council an update on the ongoing “BRAVE Cave” investigation. 

It took a city-parish crew roughly 40 minutes on an early morning in September to fill a dump truck with mattresses, a rotting couch and other trash collected from behind an abandoned apartment complex off Florida Boulevard. 

An Ascension Parish-based emergency service provider is expanding its operations to include an Our Lady of the Lake facility in Napoleonville.

It took a city-parish crew roughly 40 minutes on an early morning in September...

East Baton Rouge city-parish sales tax collections were just slightly ahead of last year’s pace through July, according to the latest report made public today. 

Councilmen Dwight Hudson and Rowdy Gaudet both say they’ve heard opposition from constituents regarding the creation of an economic development district at the Aztek Cove development. 

A surge of small businesses could be reshaping America’s economic and entrepreneurial ecosystem, Inc. reports.

More companies are borrowing against their assets, including inventory and receivables, as finance chiefs look to bolster liquidity amid financial stress from inflation and high interest rates, The Wall Street Journal reports.  

In some contrast to yesterday’s private payroll report from ADP, which found fewer new...

Work to put most of Baton Rouge’s Government Street on a “road diet”—turning four lanes into three (including a turning lane) while adding bike lanes and medians and improving sidewalks—was completed in 2021.