Real Estate

Roughly six months after the school closed, the Runnels School campus has changed hands, according to sales documents. 

A local investor has bought the former Hound Dogs bar on the corner of Main and Seventh streets and has plans to lease the building as a lounge with a rooftop bar. 

A 26-acre tract on North Ardenwood Drive tapped as the spot for a new multifamily development has been sold to the project’s developers. 

The Southdowns Shopping Center has added two new tenants over the past month, while two of its existing tenants have moved into larger spaces within the Perkins Road retail center.

The Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors has updated its regulations to require brokers to record the actual sale price of property transactions in the Multiple Listing Service.

Two weeks after announcing it would buy the Belle of Baton Rouge, the Illinois-based riverboat operator Casino Queen is moving forward with plans to also buy the operations of Hollywood Casino. 

Joe Delpit, owner of Chicken Shack, considered by many to be Baton Rouge’s longest running restaurant, received a permit late last week to begin construction on a new Highland Road restaurant.

Don’t expect a new Mississippi River bridge in the Baton Rouge area anytime soon. That became clear today when consultants hired by the state for the planning of the project said it will be another two years before the public sees any proposals for the highly-anticipated bridge project.

More than six months after Amazon’s plans to acquire the various parcels comprising the former Cortana Mall fell through, the high-stakes deal to redevelop the 1-million square foot site into a massive regional distribution center appears to still have life.

The Williams Sonoma location in the Mall of Louisiana is set to close on Jan. 31, store staff confirmed today.