Restaurants & Retail

Restaurants, shops, and retailers across the Baton Rouge area — openings, closings, expansions, and the people behind them.

Landlords to retail tenants: It’s time to pay your rent

After granting their struggling retail tenants leeway with rent payments for much of 2020, Baton Rouge landlords have largely decided it’s time to drop the hammer.

Riegel: Remembering a retailer who put people before profit

The death of Henry Bingham Jr., who defied the odds by keeping Our Hardware operating, leaves a hole in the world that is the Perkins Road Overpass.

How viral TikToks are helping businesses take off

Once hailed as just an app for Gen-Zers, TikTok has become a crucial social...

Former Hobby Lobby on O’Neal converting to self-storage facility

The former Hobby Lobby building on O’Neal Lane has been sold to a North Carolina-based real estate investment group that plans to convert the big box space into a self-storage facility.

‘We’re ready for it to be over’: Corporate Boulevard work set to wrap in June

Four months since work crews resumed making repairs and upgrades to Corporate Boulevard, merchants...

Petco adding veterinary care, office space to Acadian Village store

Petco is planning to add a new veterinary care office and a manager’s office in its Acadian Village Shopping Center store.

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The Amazon effect: Strip center at Florida and N. Sherwood Forest sells for $1.6M

After more than six years on the market, a retail strip center at the intersection of North Sherwood Forest and Florida boulevards anchored by a long-shuttered Albertsons supermarket has sold for $1.6 million, or a little more than $4.50 per square foot.