Meet south Louisiana’s biggest landowners

It’s believed that some day, much of that land from Lake Charles to Slidell and down to New Orleans that currently looks like forest or field might eventually be swallowed up by the linear city known as the 10/12 corridor. So who stands to benefit from that transformation? Or who, perhaps, is pushing to make it happen? One is a high-powered lawyer who has a predilection for well-traveled interstate intersections. Another is a logging giant that doesn’t mind selling off acreage if the price is right. One is a prominent urban developer whose work is worth an estimated $800 million. And two of them have their roots in one of Louisiana’s oldest cash crops, sugar cane. To meet the land barons—five of the corridor’s biggest landowners—read the 10/12 cover story here.