Real Estate

Activist Gary Chambers is defending the young developers in line to receive $6 million in American Rescue Plan funds from the Broome administration for a 51,000-square-foot mixed-use development with 36 affordable housing units in Scotlandville.

As Metro Council members begin to delve into Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s spending plan for the $73 million in American Rescue Plan dollars headed to Baton Rouge, they’re starting to ask questions

Is Barnes and Noble closing its location at Citiplace? Not in the immediate future. But the 34,000-square-foot freestanding retail outlet is being listed for sale or lease.

ProSource Wholesale of Baton Rouge, a wholesale home and commercial improvement supplier, bought a building at 10848 Airline Highway for $2.9 million on Friday and plans to move its Baton Rouge operations there next year. 

Churchill’s has scrapped its plans to relocate to the Acadian-Perkins Plaza. Late Friday, the establishment’s owner withdrew a rezoning request that was set to go before the Planning Commission at tonight’s meeting, which would have cleared the way for the cigar and spirits retailer to relocate to the 9,000-square-foot Claitor’s Bookstore space in the retail center.

Design: Envōc set out to merge high-tech with modern farmhouse in the design of its new headquarters in the City Farm office complex.

Build Baton Rouge President and CEO Chris Tyson is responding to criticism from Metro Council member Chauna Banks, who says the redevelopment authority isn’t doing enough to clear title to blighted properties and return them to commerce.

As it has for the past three meetings, the Metro Council Wednesday deferred an item requesting a report from Build Baton Rouge President and CEO Chris Tyson on the status of the land banks the agency oversees for the city-parish.

The Baton Rouge residential real estate market in September saw the nation’s biggest drop in homes for sale among large markets compared to the same month last year, according to a report released today. 

Three local apartment buildings were sold this week to out-of-state buyers in multi-million dollar deals.