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The Baton Rouge Area Foundation’s real estate company has sustained significant financial losses over...
On Aug. 15, attorneys for a northeastern-based investment trust bought back the nearly 800,000-square-foot Bon Carré Business Center for $10,000 in a foreclosure sale...
How the Wilbur Marvin Foundation contributed $6 million to BRAF, only to borrow it...
A frequent criticism leveled at BRAF and its real estate company, Commercial Properties Realty Trust, is that the line between the organizations is blurred,...
After 11 years of struggles and an $18.2 million write-down, Commercial Properties’ North Carolina...
In 2007, Commercial Properties Realty Trust acquired a nearly 400-acre tract of rolling farmland in Raleigh, North Carolina, near the intersection of two busy...
DSLD continues its winning homebuilding formula
NEW MANAGEMENT: DSLD's new management team—Lee Foster, Saun Sullivan and Jeff Purpera Jr.—spent years with the company learning from its founder H. Allen Thomason...
Garden District, one of Baton Rouge’s oldest neighborhoods, retains its charm…even if it comes...
Homes in the Garden District have seen square-foot prices increase by nearly $30 to $186.10 over the past five years. (File photo)
Baton Rouge attorney...
A failure to assess in Baton Rouge
An analysis by Business Report of select commercial properties in East Baton Rouge Parish, including the University House apartments near LSU, suggests a pattern of under-assessment that...
Volunteers of America awarded grant to build 122 apartments in Spanish Town
A nonprofit has been awarded $5.7 million in Community Development Block Grant funds from the Louisiana Housing Corporation to develop 122 new apartment homes...
MoMo Tea, Jambalaya Shoppe among six tenants joining Ichiban Square
Six tenants have signed leases to open at Ichiban Square, a roughly 21,450-square-foot retail center under development at the corner of Essen Lane and Perkins Road.
New...
Gourmet Girls leaving Perkins Road overpass area for larger space in Studio Park
Kathy Mangham, owner of Gourmet Girls.
Catering company Gourmet Girls will be moving from its location near the Perkins Road overpass as a part of an expansion.
Gourmet Girls will...
New Sammy’s concept to open next month at The Oasis
The patio and beach volleyball court at The Oasis mixed-use development on Burbank Drive are officially open, says developer Chris Shaheen, as the remaining...
Materra: A different twist on a TND
The site plan for the residential development section of the Materra mixed-use development. (Courtesy Woman's Hospital)
Woman’s Hospital recently unveiled plans for a 100-acre mixed-use...
Baton Rouge real estate market on solid ground as August 2016 flood recovery continues
BIRDEYE VIEW: The Rouzan TND is being built in a hot Baton Rouge residential market that's showing little signs of cooling. (Photo by Collin...
Crime prevention districts are popular in Baton Rouge, but do they work?
Crime prevention districts—and the sense of security they provide—are popular in older Baton Rouge neighborhoods, but do they actually help reduce crime or are they simply mandatory HOA...
Cook: Do we really need more apartments?
"Where can I build some more apartments? Is there demand anywhere?”
I get asked these questions a lot. We have good job growth, a number...
New realities for commercial retail space in Baton Rouge
CHANGING SCENE: Macy’s will convert 16,000 square feet of its Mall of Louisiana location into a discount outlet, the latest sign of rapid evolution...
John Engquist is one smart businessman
John Engquist does many things well.
The 64-year-old CEO of H&E Equipment Services has a proven track record as a successful business executive, having grown...
Westside story: A growing number of young homebuyers are choosing the other side of...
NO PLACE LIKE HOME: Emily Gregoire, who works at the LSU Foundation, and her husband, Blake, chose to purchase a home in the Sugar...
Take a look inside LSU’s Patrick F. Taylor Hall following its $116M renovation, expansion
The entrance faces Nicholson Drive Extension on the south side of the LSU campus. The complex was completed in several phases, and collectively encompasses...
Cook: Shopping center sells for $3.2M
The outparcel shopping center that adjoins the Albertsons at Airline Highway and Highland Road has sold for $3.2 million.
Consisting of three buildings, the center...
Baton Rouge remains a residential seller’s market .. but the dynamics, especially for high-end...
CHANGING TIDE: After five years of low inventory and escalating prices, Ginger Maulden, past president of the Greater Baton Rouge Association of Realtors, says...
