Economic Development

Oil companies across the country are slowly deploying more shale oil rigs as the economy recovers from the 2020 recession, but shale rig numbers in Louisiana are already close to pre-pandemic levels as oil prices continue to rise.

The West Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce is looking for a new executive director months after the previous director Jamie Hanks left several months ago to pursue other opportunities. 

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome has announced her plan for spending the next batch of federal funds headed to Baton Rouge courtesy of the American Rescue Plan.

A record 51% of business owners reported job openings they couldn’t fill last month,...

Goss Advisors, a financial consulting firm with offices in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, is moving its Baton Rouge office to a new building along Jefferson Highway.

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is launching an online poll for identifying and prioritizing recreational amenities along the greenway beneath and alongside Interstate 10 through Baton Rouge, extending from Myrtle Street at Expressway Park southeast to E. Polk Street Park.  

E&D Properties, a small Baton Rouge-based developer, is expanding Warehouse Office Plaza, an office...

Turner Industries has created a new subsidiary, Turner Industries Energy Services, that will focus on the growing renewable energy sector.

Annual revenue for LSU’s main online education program has almost tripled over the past three years, the departed official who led that division says. 

Is Amazon already spurring economic development activity around the site of the former Cortana Mall?