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Los Angeles-based JRK Property Holdings, a real estate investment group, has bought the Indigo Park by Cortland apartment complex on Nicholson Drive for $46.4 million. 

The Bridge Center for Hope is slated to open its doors to the public sometime in December, after construction on the 24,000-square-foot facility is expected to wrap in mid-November.

Like many employers throughout the pandemic, Louisiana Lagniappe owner Kevin Ortego has received “base claim” notices from the Louisiana Workforce Commission—form letters asking him to verify that a claimant seeking unemployment compensation previously worked for him. But unlike employers who know, or at least, recognize the names of the former employees they’re being asked to verify, Ortego has received what he estimates to be between 50 and 100 notices about people he’s never heard of, much less employed at his restaurant.

A husband-and-wife team has opened a French-inspired dessert shop on Essen Lane, near Anselmo Lane. 

Nearly five years after the city-parish began looking at ways to update and improve the parking system in downtown Baton Rouge, Mayor Sharon Weston Broome’s administration is poised to award two contracts for different components of the system, signaling the end of the process is near.

The owners of Coyote Moon Crystals & Gifts, a spiritual boutique on Perkins Road, have opened a new sister shop in the Goodwood Village shopping center on Jefferson Highway, near Government Street. 

A month after receiving the green light to begin construction, the developers of the multifamily Valencia Park have purchased nearly 3 acres of land across the street

U.S. Sens. John Kennedy and Bill Cassidy, who have spent years trying to help Louisiana victims of the Stanford Group Ponzi scheme recoup some of the money they lost more than a decade ago, are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to get involved in the case.

A San Francisco-based firm has filed an advanced notice with Louisiana Economic Development for a new solar energy manufacturing facility to be built in West Baton Rouge Parish in 2022. 

BASIS charter schools has purchased the former Honda dealership property on Florida Boulevard to be the site of its second campus in Baton Rouge.

A local management group has secured a majority stake in The Oasis, the recreational development on Burbank Drive near LSU.

Baton Rouge community banks are trying to keep capital flowing while mitigating increased risk in the uncertain economy created by the pandemic.

The Papa John’s Pizza property on Jefferson Highway, near its intersection with Corporate Boulevard and Old Hammond Highway, has sold for nearly $1 million. 

Not only does the lone independent poll released so far in the Baton Rouge mayor’s race show incumbent Sharon Weston Broome far ahead of her opponents with 41% of support, but new details from the poll also give Broome a comfortable lead among a key demographic she needs to get reelected—moderate, swing voters.

Public safety agencies in Baton Rouge could see their revenues increase next year if the Metro Council approves a measure later this month to roll forward those agencies’ property tax rates for 2020.

Frustrated bar and club owners across Baton Rouge argue they’ve been unfairly targeted by Louisiana’s pandemic regulations.

Walk-On’s Sports Bistreaux has received a significant investment from private equity firm 10 Point Capital, which will enable the Baton Rouge-based restaurant chain to accelerate its already rapid growth.

Startup Relief Telemed is experiencing rapid growth during the pandemic after going all-in on COVID-19 testing and landing a contract with LSU.

Baton Rouge’s business community has been dealt yet another blow this year: widespread power outages triggered by Hurricane Delta, which made landfall in southwest Louisiana on Friday.

A new collaborative working space, Legacy on 14th, is opening in the historic Eddie Robinson Sr. neighborhood near Old South Baton Rouge.