Economic Development

Baton Rouge-based Community Coffee has filed an advance notice with the state that it intends to undergo a $4 million expansion. 

It’s not just downtown Baton Rouge that has suffered from fewer workers coming into the office. 

Baton Rouge’s popular Mississippi River levee trail draws walkers, runners and cyclists to 12.5...

The East Baton Rouge Parish Planning Commission is wrapping up its round of community open house meetings to solicit feedback for its planned five-year update to the city-parish’s comprehensive master plan. 

Hot and dry weather may limit the yields for some of Louisiana’s most important crops, though the full impact won’t be known until harvest, LSU AgCenter experts say. 

While John Spain is stepping down as executive vice president of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, a position he has held for two decades, he remains under contract with BRAF for the next two years.

Businesses are expecting Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action to reduce the diversity in the pool of highly educated candidates for future jobs, including leadership roles, according to The Wall Street Journal.

John Spain, longtime executive vice president with the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, is stepping back from that role but will continue to work with the foundation’s leadership team to advance key initiatives.

The city-parish collected roughly $19.6 million in sales taxes in April, marking a drop of more than 7% from April 2022, according to figures released this week by the finance department.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has committed to continuing work on the Comite River Diversion Project, even though the projected cost has approached $1 billion, U.S. Rep. Garret Graves says.