Commercial and residential real estate across the Capital Region — development projects, property sales, construction, and the market trends driving them.
If a proposed modification to the Old Hammond Highway Overlay District allowing for the development of a controversial Murphy Oil gas station secures Metro Council approval later this month, it would join just a few other cases where properties have successfully been removed from one of the parish’s 10 overlay districts in recent years.
Nearly two years after filing suit over construction problems that delayed the since-completed downtown library, the city-parish has filed an amended version of the lawsuit, once again naming its general contractor, Buquet & LeBlanc, as a defendant in the case.
Construction is set to finish in December on the new dental offices at the corner of College Drive and Constitution Avenue. The site, formerly a Chevron gas station, was cleared in late 2018. At the time, property owner Nadia Elbar told Daily Report that she wanted to find a new use for the property in light of increasing competition for service station operators from big-name retailers such as Walmart.
Big John’s Fast Fries, billed as a “startup french fry concept,” is moving into the South Sherwood Forest Boulevard building most recently vacated by Best Boilers.
@Highland has officially unveiled its plans to reconfigure 17,860 square feet of vacant, third-floor office space into flex space for remote workers and local businesses