New home: NAI/Latter & Blum has officially relocated its Baton Rouge headquarters to 1700 City Farm Drive, the company has announced. The new 18,000-square-foot office will house more than 50 commercial agents and staff as well as 45 property management employees. NAI/Latter & Blum announced last year its plan to relocate to Dantin Bruce Development’s Offices at City Farm on Jefferson Highway near Towne Center. NAI/Latter & Blum Director of Commercial Sales & Leasing Karl Landreneau says the new headquarters gives the company enough space to develop and expand its team and improve its client services. All of NAI/Latter & Blum’s phone numbers and fax numbers will remain the same.
The three Rs: Louisiana is getting just over $10 million from the federal government to improve preschool programs for children from low-income families, The Associated Press reports. The U.S. education and health departments say in a news release that Louisiana is one of 18 states that will receive a share of $247 million in awards under the Preschool Development Grant program. The grant marks the second year that Louisiana has gotten the assistance. The initial grant allowed the state to enroll 340 at-risk children in preschool classes. At-risk children are those from families with incomes at or above 185% of the federal poverty level. Read the full news release.
In operation: Baton Rouge-based Venyu Solutions has opened the doors to its new data center in downtown Shreveport, The Shreveport Times reports. A subsidiary of Gonzales-based EATEL, Venyu will house the state’s only Tier III data center, a designation that means the servers the company rents out in the building will be available for clients who store data on them 99.982% of the year. Venyu’s Shreveport servers can only be down for about an hour and a half during the entire year to maintain the designation. With about 87,000 square feet of space, the center houses more than 200 servers and switch racks fed by 91,000 feet of power cabling. According to the terms of the contract for the company’s new building, Venyu will have three years to bring in 70 jobs paying an average of $50,000. Read the full story.
