The Raising Cane’s River Center had a lot riding on 2020. The previous five years had seen a steady decline in the number of events at the facility’s arena, exhibition hall and theater, and it was losing a little less than $1 million a year on average.
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber and Gov. John Bel Edwards today announced Tokyo-based Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. is studying the feasibility of building a methyl methacrylate manufacturing complex in Geismar.
With the deadline to bid on River Park next week nears, real estate brokers representing the nearly 24-acre downtown riverfront property just north of Hollywood Casino made a late pitch to try and garner local interest in developing the property for commercial entertainment use.
Organizers of the St. George incorporation effort have filed documents in 19th Judicial District Court detailing how they plan to run their prospective city of some 86,000 residents.