News roundup: Highland Road under I-10 to be closed at night from Aug. 20-30 … College Drive Chili’s sold for $2.1 million … Claycut Road neighborhood plagued by power outages  

Blocked: All lanes of Highland Road at Interstate 10 in Baton Rouge will be closed for 10 consecutive nights, from Aug. 20 through Aug. 30, to accommodate nighttime construction work, according to an announcement from the Louisiana Department of Transportation. Crews will install steel girders over Highland Road to support a new bridge that is part of the I-10 On the Greaux widening project. The road will be closed between the interstate on-ramps and off-ramps from 9 p.m. until 5 a.m.

Sold: The Chili’s Bar and Grill off College Drive near Interstate 10 was sold for $2.1 million, according to documents filed Monday with the East Baton Rouge Parish Clerk of Court. Dallas-based owner of the Chili’s chain of restaurants, Brinker Property Corporation, sold the property to Four Corners Property Trust LLC, of Mill Valley, California. The Baton Rouge restaurant was one of nearly 100 Chili’s sold by Brinker in deals worth over $300 million, according to the Dallas Business Journal. Brinker will sign 15-year leases for each restaurant sold, and Four Corners will have the option of five-year lease renewals.
In the dark: Power outages on Claycut Road and South Foster Drive in Baton Rouge have become an all-too-familiar problem to the people who live there, WBRZ-TV reports. Outages have happened nearly weekly, residents say. Entergy’s Senior Manager Greg Guilbeau says Entergy cuts the trees every four years, but they have been trimming the limbs more often in the last few months to prevent them from falling on power lines and fix the problem.Read the full story.