Economic Development

A building permit has been granted for construction to start on the new BASIS charter campus on Florida Boulevard, on the site of a former Honda dealership near Wooddale Boulevard. 

Though today’s Louisiana Board of Commerce & Industry meeting has been postponed due to Hurricane Zeta, industrial tax exemption requests from Genesis Energy and an appeal from Praxair remain sources of controversy.

That Baton Rouge Area Chamber today released its latest economic indicator dashboard, which examines...

Sales of new U.S.  single-family homes unexpectedly fell in September after four months of...

Local developer Prescott Bailey has left Lafayette-based Southern Lifestyle Development and formed two new ventures—Novus Reb Engineering, a civil engineering group that focuses on infrastructure and site design for real estate projects, and Onyx Ventures, which will do site selection and development feasibility analysis.

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s political action committee, FuturePAC, released its endorsements this week...

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber today released its COVID-19 economic indicator dashboard that examines...

When it comes to the ongoing efforts to find the funding and political will...

BASIS charter schools has purchased the former Honda dealership property on Florida Boulevard to be the site of its second campus in Baton Rouge.

Baton Rouge homes continued to sell at a rapid pace in September, beating last...