Economic Development

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

Restaurant Possible: Innovation invades the Baton Rouge restaurant scene

(Photo by Collin Richie: Seared Ahi tuna on Himalayan block at Ruffino's) Until recently, the...

Baton Rouge business groups unveil legislative agenda

While the Legislature gets down to the difficult task of trying to plug a...

Louisiana’s Independent voters are breaking records, even without a formal party

The fastest-growing political party in Louisiana isn't a party at all, even though it finally...

The 2015 Legislative Session: Eight bills for business

A looming $1.6 billion budget hole has complicated the upcoming legislative to an extraordinary...

Making the case: LSU President F. King Alexander leads the charge to stave off cuts to higher education

After nearly two years of wearing the many hats that come with being chancellor and...

Capital Region companies still screen employees for drugs, but the practice can add workforce challenges

By employment standards of several decades ago, it would probably seem a tremendous invasion...
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Not their parents’ dorm

(Photo courtesy American Campus Communities) College students are living the good life in high-end student...

Multifamily frenzy: Apartment construction is booming in the Capital Region

If it seems like a lot of apartment complexes are under construction in East Baton...

Measuring success: The Capital Region’s business incubators have plenty of tenants, but the key to moving them toward sustainability may be better metrics.

What makes a region sticky? It is not the restaurants and bars, the transportation...

Blood in the water

Metro Council members take aim at the latest project of an already-weakened RDA. The unveiling...
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