In attendance: Gov. John Bel Edwards today announced that Attorney General Loretta Lynch will join local officials and Vice President Joseph Biden at Thursday’s memorial service in Baton Rouge for the law enforcement officers killed in the July 17 attack. The announcement comes one day after Daily Report reported Biden’s plan to attend the service at Healing Place Church on Highland Road. The governor’s office has planned the memorial to honor the three law enforcement officers killed July 17 in a calculated ambush on Airline Highway. Biden, Edwards and Lynch will all make remarks about the killings during the event, which is open to the public and begins at 2 p.m. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.
Coming soon: A permit has been pulled for construction of the Long Law Firm’s new office at the City Farm development on Jefferson Highway, near Towne Center. The $1.25 million office building will be 11,459 square feet with a 633-square-foot mezzanine. Adrian Nadeau, a partner at the Long Law Firm, previously said the firm decided to move to City Farm because of the location, the ability to design a unique space as well as the development’s characteristics. The Long Law Firm has two locations—one in Baton Rouge and one in Washington, D.C. It specializes in commercial litigation, construction and regulatory law. The Long Law Firm joins NAI/Latter & Blum and Cypress Title as tenants in City Farm.
Grim reality: A real estate developer wanted to increase affordable housing in Denver, trying to make fiscal sense out of a plan to build rental apartments for people making only 30% of the area’s median income. He discovered that, no matter what compromise he made, he was going to need some money from the government to make it work. The Denver developer is fictional, but as Bloomberg reports, his sticky situation is typical of illustrations laid out in a new simulator: No matter how you slice it, creating the affordable housing needed today probably requires government help. Bloomberg has the full story.
