Business News

Breaking news, company moves, economic trends, and the deals shaping Greater Baton Rouge and the Capital Region.

Sales of four Baton Rouge hotels close for $38.4M as part of $150M deal

New York-based American Realty Capital Hospitality Trust Inc. paid roughly $38.4 million for four...

Official at LSU’s 2015 Energy Summit says natural gas can meet new energy demands

Natural gas producers stand ready to meet new power demands, but new infrastructure is...

Baton Rouge, New Orleans to eventually join together as one metro statistical area, economic development leaders predict

The Baton Rouge and New Orleans metro areas will eventually become a single metropolitan...

CATS board unanimously approves route eliminations and changes; Metro Council to have final say next month

With a proposal to eliminate a pair of Capital Area Transit System routes getting...

Baton Rouge executives open business at airport to service private aircraft

Five local executives have launched a new business at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport...

Four new tenants signed on for Perkins Rowe; 88 new apartments recently completed

A new sporting goods store, sunglasses shop, hair salon and hair restoration clinic are...

Baton Rouge councilman thinks next mayor should be paid as a CEO to bring top candidates to table

The CEO of an $800 million company with 3,000 employees. That’s how Metro Councilman Joel...

Dallas firm buys Baton Rouge apartment complex near LSU for $108.6M

In what amounts to one of the largest sales of Baton Rouge commercial property...

Varsity Sports owner, BREC differ on ideas for public track in Brooks Park

Plans by a group of running enthusiasts to help develop a public track on...

Pollster: Low interest in Louisiana governor’s race ‘as bad as I’ve ever seen it’

Local pollster Bernie Pinsonat has been surveying Louisiana voters about gubernatorial elections for decades...
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