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Meet the Capital Region 500: Yvette Marsh
Yvette Marsh
Assistant vice president of talent management, LSU Foundation
A prevailing adage in the development world is that donors don’t give to causes, they give...
Scott Wozniak: Caring and customer insights
True customer insight doesn’t emerge automatically as you go about your business, not even if you have a lot of interactions with your customers...
Alvarez Construction purchases 44 lots for residential community
Homebuilder Alvarez Construction purchased 44 lots in the Silverside Cove community off Staring Lane for $3.5 million, according to sales documents filed with the...
This welding supply company bought property in Geismar for $1.9M
Nationally-known company Airgas purchased property in the Ascension Commerce Center in Geismar, according to a deal filed Tuesday with the Ascension clerk of court.
The...
How one local grocery store is coping with its chicken salad fameÂ
Since reality TV star and entrepreneur Bethenny Frankel did a taste test of Calvin Bocage Market’s chicken salad on TikTok, sales have tripled for...
Baton Rouge engineering firm names a new president
Baton Rouge-based civil engineering and land surveying firm SJB Group announced Phillip Zimmerman as its new president.
Zimmerman has over 35 years of professional engineering,...
The FUEL partnership has named an executive director
Energy innovation expert Michael Mazzola has been tapped to serve as executive director of the massive LSU-led FUEL partnership, the university announced on Monday.
For...
An investment firm just paid $3.5M for this property off Bluebonnet near I-10
A Minnesota-based investment firm purchased property off Bluebonnet Boulevard near Interstate 10 for $3.5 million, according to a deal filed Friday with the East...
Recovery center purchases former Cenikor facility for $15M
Avenues Recovery Center purchased the former Cenikor drug rehab facility on Bunker Hill Drive on Wednesday for $15 million, according to records filed with...
A recent million-dollar real estate purchase is crucial to FranU’s master plan
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University’s recent purchase of property on Brittany Drive near the newly built St. Francis Hall is the start of...
Louisiana judicial officials silent on five-figure stipend
The team working to implement a five-figure advance stipend to Louisiana judges isn’t talking publicly about how the payment will be implemented, despite a...
See who bought this warehouse/office property near Airline for $1M
Ownership of a warehouse/office property on Professional Boulevard near Bluebonnet Boulevard and Airline Highway recently changed hands.
Paradym Partners LLC, represented by O’Neil Falgoust III...
Riverboat riches: Baton Rouge casino revenues up from last year
Baton Rouge’s trio of riverboat casinos collectively saw a second consecutive month of revenue gains in June after it dipped in earlier spring.Â
L’Auberge Baton...
First Guaranty Bank sues Greenbrier Hotel Corp. for $36M
First Guaranty Bank, a Hammond-based bank with three branches in the Capital Region, is suing West Virginia-based Greenbrier Hotel Corp. for more than $36...
Currency Bank names new president and CEOÂ
Currency Bank has named Scott Gaudin president and CEO, succeeding Charles Chiasson.Â
Gaudin, one of the bank’s founders, was previously chief lending officer and executive...
Gas station property on O’Neal Lane sells for $5.2M
A pair of Nevada-registered companies purchased the RaceTrac gas station property on O’Neal Lane near Walmart, according to sales documents filed Wednesday with the...
Strictly Business Episode 18: Steve Mellor
What constitutes an elite team in business, and how do you build one? What are the most critical attributes to look for in its...
Premier Concrete is investing $10M in its Livingston Parish facility
Premier Concrete Products Inc. will invest up to $10 million to add a precast concrete pipe production unit at its manufacturing facility in Livingston...
How this coffee shop is reacting to three burglaries in two weeks
After three burglaries over a span of just 12 days, Light House Coffee on Lee Drive is changing its ways.
The establishment will no longer...
Louisiana’s newly created role of surgeon general, explained
What will Ralph Abraham’s duties as surgeon general actually be, and how much is he getting paid? Here’s what we know about Louisiana’s newest...
