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The five most expensive homes on the Baton Rouge market
(So far in 2019)
The cold front that settled over the high-end Baton Rouge residential market following the 2016 August flood still hasn’t completely moved...
Design: Red Stick Social
Architect: DNA Workshop/Dyke Nelson Architecture
Contractor: Buquet & LeBlanc
Cost: $6 million
Completed: 2019
Use: Home to Red Stick Social, a 35,000-square-foot multipurpose entertainment venue offering 10 bowling lanes,...
Targeting downsizing baby boomers, developer launches townhome projects
John Blount, of Bount General Contractors, has broken ground on two Capital Region townhome developments aimed at aging baby boomers looking to downsize after...
First look: Sprouts opening in Rouzan Wednesday
Baton Rouge shoppers will have a new supermarket to visit beginning Wednesday morning as Sprouts Farmers Market opens it doors in the Village Center...
Development growth rises flood concerns in Ascension, Livingston
Decades ago, as the nation’s longest desegregation case dragged on in East Baton Rouge Parish schools, families began flocking to the lower housing cost...
Design: Ochsner Medical Complex-The Grove
Owner: Ochsner Health System
Architect: GraceHebert Architects
Contractor: The Lemoine Company
Cost: $116 million
Completed: May 31, 2019
Use: Medical office building and surgical hospital with optimal patient rooms
Location: 10310 The...
Baton Rouge residential market off to promising start
The Capital Region residential market is off to a relatively promising start in 2019, year-to-date figures through April show. Though home total sales in...
Thirty years later, Florida Boulevard is still a no man’s land
In 1986, a group of civic leaders got together to address some of the problems in Baton Rouge that might sound familiar to residents...
Some see potential in a Florida Boulevard rebirth
While Florida Boulevard faces considerable challenges, including vacant and blighted properties, below-market lease rates, unfavorable demographics, and outdated zoning codes that stymie smart growth...
Spanish Town Airbnb battle heats up as draft ordinance becomes public
Spanish Town Civic Association members are raising concerns over an ordinance draft that would regulate short-term rentals in historic neighborhoods, which they complain favors...
HerringStone’s clothing boutique moving into former Blink space
HerringStone’s, a Monroe-based women’s clothing boutique, is moving into the Corporate Boulevard space once occupied by Blink Boutique.
HerringStone’s owners—sisters Debbie Herrington and Cindy Stone—represented...
Keeping Spanish Town weird in an Airbnb world
Spanish Town residents Cheryl McCormick and Derrell Cohoon recall the surly reputation the neighborhood had when they moved into their historic Fifth Street home...
Design: Louisiana Associated General Contractors
Owner: Louisiana Associated General Contractors
Architect: GraceHebert Architects
Contractor: Stuart & Company General Contractors
Cost: $2 million
Completed: November 2018
Use: Headquarters office of the Louisiana Associated General Contractors
Location: 666 North St.
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Design: David E. Roberts Center for Economic Development
Owner: Baton Rouge Area Chamber
Architect: WHLC Architecture
Contractor: Milton J. Womack
Cost: $3.5 million
Completed: August 2018
Use: Headquarters of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber and a resource for the...
Microtel Inn & Suites sells for $2.6M
The Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham on Rieger Road, off I-10 at Siegen Lane, was recently sold for some $2.6 million, according to...
It’s official: Baton Rouge multifamily sector is overbuilt, especially near LSU
If you’ve noticed all the recent construction south of LSU around Burbank and Nicholson drives and thought to yourself that the student housing market...
The unfulfilled infill promise of The River District
The long expanse of land straddling oak-lined Nicholson Drive is by now supposed to be a vibrant, mixed-use development, not only linking LSU to...
Siegen Village Shopping Center sold for $18M
The Siegen Village Shopping Center, located across from Target, was recently sold to a Houston-based real estate investment group for $18 million, according to...
North Baton Rouge SpringHill Suites sold for $11M
The SpringHill Suites by Marriott on Howell Boulevard, near the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, has been sold to a Minnesota-based hotel operator for $11...
Declining grades in Baton Rouge Class A office market
Last year, Baton Rouge welcomed three shiny new office buildings to the Class A market, adding more than 150,000 square feet of premium workspace....
