After kicking several significant issues down the road in recent months, the Metro Council got down to business on Tuesday evening during its regular meeting—which followed a special budget hearing Monday evening—approving a neighborhood annexation, a Complete Streets policy to guide future roadway development, and new Capital Area Transit System routes and creating a committee to review applicants for the vacant parish attorney position.
Also this week, ClearEdge Wholesale Glass announced it’s moving operations from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and will spend $2.65 million to renovate a 41,000-square-foot facility here for manufacturing operations.
ClearEdge, which began operations in New Orleans in 2009, says about 20 employees will be moving to Baton Rouge as part of the relocation. Louisiana Economic Development estimates the company’s move will create 120 more new direct jobs in Baton Rouge, as well as 113 new indirect jobs.
And while many airports around the country will be packed with holiday travelers over the next few days, the Baton Rouge Metro Airport only expects a modest uptick in travelers. An estimated 8,000 people are expected to fly in and out of the airport between Wednesday and Sunday, the peak travel days of the Thanksgiving weekend. Those figures are between 1% and 2% lower than the number of people who passed through the airport last Thanksgiving, but airport spokesman Jim Caldwell says once travel has been completed and final data is tabulated the numbers should be comparable.
—Steve Sanoski Read the complete Daily Report Week in Review for an overview of all of the top local stories making headlines this week.
