A prescription for Mid City: CVS has filed paperwork to build a pharmacy in front of the Bon Carré Business Park. According to documents filed with the city-parish permit office, the pharmacy would be built at the intersection of Florida Boulevard and Lobdell, on the site of an old Montgomery Ward auto shop. The 13,225-square-foot drugstore would cost $1.8 million to build. This is the second pharmacy for which CVS has filed permits to build in recent weeks; the chain plans to build a location on Highland Road near the North Gates of LSU.
New downtown businesses: A deal for the state to buy a parking garage at Third and Convention streets clears the way for a downtown police office and a Roly Poly restaurant. Plans are to open the office and the restaurant in the next three or four months, says Brad Way, an agent with NAI/Latter & Blum, who represented the state and Roly Poly in the parking garage purchase. This will be the fourth Roly Poly in Baton Rouge. Establishing the downtown police office has been a longstanding project for city and police officials. Sgt. Don Kelly, a police spokesman, says the office will be a place where officers can work when they’re handling downtown events as well as a place to store equipment.
Put stuff here: Red Stick Self Storage on Burbank Drive has been sold for $1.4 million. A group called “8847 Burbank” bought the center from Red Stick Self Storage in a deal that was filed Tuesday. Joe Preskitt, who now owns the center, says he will continue managing the property as storage. There are 230 units in the center.
