Economic Development

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

Baton Rouge area home repair firms are doing the best they can to keep up with a flood of calls, concerns about supplies and...

The demand for home repair companies such as Guarantee Restoration Services will be high,...

Area banks will be busy as residents and businesses without flood insurance look for funding to begin rebuilding

Cornerstone Commercial Flooring is among the many businesses that did not have flood insurance...

Capital Region industrial plants and the companies that service them were hard hit by losses—not to infrastructure, but to employees

Epic Piping’s new 268,000-square-foot facility in Livingston Parish, which opened in July, was among...

For area hospitals, keeping floodwaters out was not as difficult as keeping employees in

Area hospitals were spared major flooding, but were challenged by limited staffs and supplies...

Open or shut, restaurants took on losses in the flood

Walk-On’s, which had just opened in March, is among the restaurants and businesses in...

Recovery promises to be a lot easier for the area’s large, big box retailers than for local independent businesses

The Royal Standard at 16016 Perkins Road took on nearly three feet of water,...
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Agriculture losses in south Louisiana are at $110 million and growing

  It will take until at least early September for officials to gauge the exact...

A new pilot program brings cancer screenings to Baton Rouge businesses

Lipsey's has already hosted its first screening for skin cancer at its Baton Rouge...

Most objectives in Baton Rouge’s master plan have been initiated since it was adopted in 2011, but some of the biggest remain a work...

The current Unified Development Code is "a real barrier to development" and needs to...

Photo Essay: After the flood

(Photography by Allie Appel) As soon as the floodwaters began receding during the week of...
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