Economic Development

Gov. John Bel Edwards opened this year’s regular legislative session—his last as governor—with calls for addressing what many lawmakers and business advocates call a crisis in the state’s property insurance market. 

People working from home became younger, more diverse, better educated and more likely to move during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sales of multifamily complexes have cooled in Baton Rouge amid a national slowdown fueled by higher interest rates, banking fears and slowing rent growth. 

Private homebuilder DSLD Homes LLC has purchased 64 lots in the Evergreen Estates subdivision for $3.26 million, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court's office.

Last year, Louisiana lawmakers approved legislation that allows "any interested person" to challenge the state’s occupational licensing restrictions.

The state’s most prominent business lobby will look a little different during this year’s legislative session now that Stephen Waguespack

A three-year initiative launched by Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration in late 2019 to recruit new grocery stores to underserved neighborhoods in the parish sunsetted last year without any deals for a new store. 

Louisiana has officially launched a program that makes up to $113 million in federal support available to small business owners. 

Addressing an insurance crisis gets top billing during the upcoming legislative session, but numerous familiar pro-business issues will share the stage.

Pennington Biomedical’s groundbreaking Metamor Institute is not only changing the model for treating obesity but is also a research and economic engine.