Downtown to get police storefront, Roly Poly

A deal for the state to buy a parking garage at Third and Convention streets clears the way for a downtown police office and a Roly Poly restaurant. Plans are to open the office and the restaurant in the next three or four months, says Brad Way, an agent with NAI/Latter & Blum, who represented the state and Roly Poly in the parking garage purchase. This will be the fourth Roly Poly in Baton Rouge. Establishing the downtown police office has been a longstanding project for city and police officials. Sgt. Don Kelly, a police spokesman, says the office will be a place where officers can work when they’re handling downtown events as well as a place to store equipment. Kelly says the office won’t be a substation, since there won’t be officers on duty round the clock. “It may evolve into a fully staffed station, but for now, this will be a place police can go in and out of,” he says. —Timothy Boone