Economic Development

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The Capital Region’s unemployment rate is at a record-low 2.6%, while the Baton Rouge area is 0.5% away from fully recovering the pandemic jobs losses, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber reports.

Georgia company Marc 1 Holdings LLC has purchased the vacant Chase Bank branch on the corner of Florida Boulevard and North Sherwood Forest Drive for $900,000, according to documents filed with the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court's office.

Top executives in much of the world are preparing for an economic downturn that is shorter and milder than usual, so they are focused on weathering the slowdown without widespread job cuts, a new survey finds.

Baton Rouge-based Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Opelousas General Health Center announced a partnership this week to expand and enhance cancer care in Acadiana. 

The Baton Rouge Area Foundation today released the strategic framework that will guide its work under CEO Chris Meyer. 

Startup Climeworks AG achieved an important milestone recently by successfully pulling CO2 from the...

BASF broke ground this week on the third and final phase of expansion at its Geismar plant. 

Niagara Bottling is planning to invest $160 million to build a production facility in...

The Downtown Development District is about to begin planning for the next phase of downtown Baton Rouge’s growth.