Economic Development

Michael Mathews, owner of Baton Rouge-based outdoor store The Backpacker, is opening the store’s third location, this one in Mandeville.

Louisiana's highway system ranks 35th in the nation in condition and overall cost-effectiveness, according to the Annual Highway Report published today by Reason Foundation.

Renewable energy provider D. E. Shaw Renewable has signed three solar power off-take agreements with Entergy Louisiana.

The shipping container has become a coveted and expensive lifeline for retailers and manufacturers, and they’re in such short supply that companies are having to rethink how they stock shelves, placing a premium on smaller, more compact merchandise: squishy toys, headphones and slippers instead of, say, play kitchens, televisions and hiking boots, The Washington Post reports. 

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber is urging the Capital Area Transit System to create a publicly accessible dashboard to keep the public informed of its performance. 

Repair or expand? That’s the decision states including Louisiana have to make following the passage of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill and the $110 billion that goes with it for highways and bridges.

Honeywell is planning to expand its Baton Rouge facility to double the production capacity of Solstice ze, a supermarket refrigerant that it says uses 35% less energy, the company announced today.

Louisiana and southeast Texas are well positioned to benefit from the transition to a less carbon-intensive energy future, a Harvard University professor who worked on a major study says.

The Interior Department today is auctioning vast oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico estimated to hold up to 1.1 billion barrels of crude, the first such sale under President Joe Biden and a harbinger of the challenges he faces to reach climate goals that depend on deep cuts in fossil fuel emissions.

California real estate firm Passco Companies has acquired two apartment complexes in the Baton Rouge area.