Economic Development

Business expansions, relocations, incentives, and investment fueling economic growth across the Baton Rouge area.

Belle of Baton Rouge owners, Eldorado Resorts, buy Caesars

While Baton Rouge gaming operatives are waiting to see if Eldorado Resorts will invest...

News alert: Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoes St. George transition bill

Gov. John Bel Edwards has vetoed Senate Bill 229, which would have created a...

Baton Rouge looking to enter cooperative agreement for Healthy Food Retail Initiative

Mayor Sharon Weston Broome is asking the Metro Council to approve the city-parish entering...

How business fared during the Louisiana legislative session

No one had particularly lofty expectations for this year’s legislative session. It’s an election...

Natural gas powering the Louisiana energy industry

Fueled by the continued shale revolution and surging global energy demand, U.S. oil and...

JR Ball: Brother, can you spare $2 million for poor Baton Rouge?

The outrage was almost immediate. Baton Rouge and its city-parish government, with an annual...
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Riegel: Making sense of the MovEBR management contracts

I am still struggling to understand how the city-parish and its two program management...

For Sean and Kevin Reilly, buying Eatel was a family matter

In mid-October, an article appeared in a premium-membership edition of The Wall Street Journal,...

Politics making strange bedfellows in the anti-St. George camp

While no visible signs of any organized campaign to combat the city of St....

HUD issues guidelines enabling payout to 2016 Louisiana flood victims

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has released the legal guidance needed...
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