Real Estate

Scenic Gardens Homes, an apartment complex at 6500 Scenic Highway, was bought by Multifamily Management Inc., a Mobile, Alabama-based property management company, for $5.9 million on Friday.

CK Office Park at 17170 Perkins Road was bought by Baton Rouge-based Honor Properties LLC for $7 million on Wednesday.

The sunlit corridors, spacious lecture hall and streamlined study library of the LSU Cox Communications Academic Center for Student Athletes and Bo Campbell Auditorium dominate the corner of North Stadium and Field House drives just as they have since their completed renovation in 2002. But the building—this year’s recipient of the National College Learning Center Association’s President’s Outstanding Learning Center Award for Special Populations—is more than a practical means to help athletes hit the books.

A proposed development of 60 single-family homes off of Burbank Drive called Maple Cove, which was to be built completely in a flood zone, was removed from the Metro Council agenda Wednesday after it was also blocked by the Planning Commission in September.

Michael Mathews, owner of Baton Rouge-based outdoor store The Backpacker, is opening the store’s third location, this one in Mandeville.

The Duplantier Place Shopping Center at 257 Lee Drive was sold to a Metairie-based LLC for $3.1 million in a deal Monday.

California real estate firm Passco Companies has acquired two apartment complexes in the Baton Rouge area. 

Capitol City Wholesale bought a space formerly occupied by Winn-Dixie on Greenwell Springs Road for $1.3 million on Friday.

The goal of the new Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge was to be a place where artists could work, relax and put their talents on display.

At 59%, most Americans still aspire to be homeowners, a sign of the lingering allure of the post-World War II vision often called the American dream