Economic Development

State, local governments gain flexibility in how they spend federal COVID aid

State and local governments will soon gain flexibility to spend billions of federal coronavirus...

How high is too high when raising prices on customers? 

After a year of significant price increases, companies are trying to figure out how...

Christmas freeze puts damper on record sugar cane season 

In his 33 years of farming sugar cane, Ricky Gonsoulin had never had as...

Louisiana’s Haynesville Shale play fueling US natural gas boom

U.S. production of natural gas has hit record levels, fueled in large part by...

New Walk-On’s CEO shakes up corporate team with layoffs

Some of Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux’s Baton Rouge-based corporate team has been let go as part of a restructuring under new CEO Scott Taylor. 

Researchers clash over merits of freshwater diversion  

Scientists and state agencies say freshwater diversions are the key to saving Louisiana’s rapidly...
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EBR commercial real estate volume up in 2022 despite fewer transactions

The East Baton Rouge Parish commercial real estate sales market ended 2022 with 531...

LED expects up to $113M in small business funding to begin flowing in April

Louisiana Economic Development officials say money from the federal government’s State Small Business Credit Initiative may begin flowing in April. 

Origin Materials lands up to $1.5B in tax-exempt bonds for Geismar facility

Origin Materials Inc. announced last week that the Louisiana State Bond Commission has unanimously...

How Visit Baton Rouge’s Jill Kidder aims to attract more leisure travelers

It’s not shocking that the new president and CEO of Visit Baton Rouge’s mission is to get more people to visit Baton Rouge.