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Stuck in the weeds: The tax credits problem
In 2009 the RDA received $60 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits, which it was to deploy to worthy redevelopment projects in low-income...
Tom Cook: Square 46 moves forward
The proposed Mid City project known as Square 46 took a major step toward realization last month.
Fairfield Capital sold an entire city block on...
Stuck in the weeds: Five years and millions of dollars later, why doesn’t the...
In a slick, glossy report published by the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority in 2012, Mayor Kip Holden wrote a letter praising the agency for...
Stuck in the weeds: Unrealized plans
(Photo courtesy Emory University: Frank Alexander)
Before the RDA could go about redeveloping blighted neighborhoods of Baton Rouge, it had to decide where to focus...
A Model Block
Danny McGlynn and Ritter Maher Architects
inspire a new tone for Mid City
(Photo by Adam Pitts) Fading signage, cracked sidewalks and barred windows front the...
RDA: The next step
It came as little surprise when, on Nov. 3, East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority President and CEO Walter Monsour announced his resignation from the...
Old Southern sells
THE MOBILE HOME PARK known as Old Southern Residential Park at 8261 Airline Hwy in Baton Rouge sold late last month for $800,000. The...
Tom Cook: Benny’s buys Siegen site for seventh car wash
Well-known carwash operator Benny Alford has purchased a tract on Siegen Lane just north of Perkins Road for the construction of his next automated...
Group of investors begins push to redevelop Mid City homes
Developer Derek Fitch has only just wrapped up his latest project downtown, the Jolie Pearl Oyster Bar across North Boulevard from Galvez Plaza, set...
Area home sales relatively flat in September, but prices up
Eight fewer homes were sold in September this year than were sold during the month last year, a decline of about 1%, according to...
RDA’s uncertain future
What does the future hold for the East Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority?
It's a question that has been on the minds of many around City...
Andrews: Mortgage Bankers predicts residential mortgages will rise 7% next year
The Mortgage Bankers Association is projecting $1.19 trillion in residential mortgage originations during 2015, which would represent a 7% increase from $1.11 trillion in...
Perkins Plaza Center sells for $1.48 million
Perkins Plaza Center, just east of Siegen Lane on Perkins Road, has sold for nearly $1.48 million.
Wade Greene of Maestri-Murrell brokered the transaction.
Perkins Property...
