Commercial and residential real estate across the Capital Region — development projects, property sales, construction, and the market trends driving them.
After the pandemic essentially put efforts to draft a new short-term rental ordinance for Baton Rouge on hold for nearly a year, the committee tasked with researching and writing the new policy is back in business.
Now that demolition work has begun on the former Cortana Mall site to make way for a 3.5 million-square-foot Amazon fulfillment center, local companies are beginning to reap the benefits of the construction jobs the project is creating.
Jim Bernhard has sold one of the last undeveloped tracts of downtown riverfront property to businessman and developer John Engquist for $5.68 million in a deal that closed Monday.