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Local entrepreneur to open automated make-your-own pizza prototype in Tigerland

A local entrepreneur plans to open an automated pizza system in a 25-foot container in the Tigerland parking lot in February, building on a make-your-own pizza trend that appears to be coming to Baton Rouge.

US home sales drop unexpectedly in September

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

Prescott Bailey forms new firms, as Southern Lifestyle Development downsizes

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.

Rotolo starting new build-your-own pizza concept on Siegen Lane

Local restaurateur Mitch Rotolo Sr. has plans for a new pizza restaurant. The Hive Pizza, which will be in the Siegen Professional Plaza retail center next to Burger Smith, will feature personal-sized pizzas, according to its menu. The restaurant will offer build-you-own pizzas as well as a curated selection of specialty pies.

Louisiana House GOP attempts to revoke governor’s virus rules

Louisiana House Republicans planned to file a petition Friday to revoke Gov. John Bel...

‘It is what it is’: Homeowners lament council’s approval of Murphy Oil gas station

Some residents of the Sherwood Forest, Tara and Sharpstowne neighborhoods left last night’s Metro...

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Why BRAC’s FuturePAC isn’t endorsing in the mayor’s race

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

Los Angeles-based investment group buys Nicholson Drive apartments for $46M

Los Angeles-based JRK Property Holdings, a real estate investment group, has bought the Indigo Park by Cortland apartment complex on Nicholson Drive for $46.4 million.

Legislative special session winds down after GOP deal on virus oversight

Now that Republicans in Louisiana's House and Senate have muscled through a deal to...

Louisiana Lagniappe owner suspicious of jobless claims he’s being asked to verify

Like many employers throughout the pandemic, Louisiana Lagniappe owner Kevin Ortego has received “base claim” notices from the Louisiana Workforce Commission—form letters asking him to verify that a claimant seeking unemployment compensation previously worked for him. But unlike employers who know, or at least, recognize the names of the former employees they’re being asked to verify, Ortego has received what he estimates to be between 50 and 100 notices about people he’s never heard of, much less employed at his restaurant.