As Wampold Companies continues into its fourth decade of property management and development in Baton Rouge and Louisiana, the company’s focus is on the completion of a largescale renovation on Rivermark Centre, the historic 21-story building just blocks away from both the CBD and the State Capitol.
AT A GLANCE
Top executive: Mike Wampold, Founder and CEO
Phone: 225.215.1800
Address: 4171 Essen Lane, #450, Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Website: wampold.com
Projected to be completed in the next 90 to 120 days, the complex houses Chase Bank, Wampold’s offices, an underground parking garage and a set of renovated apartments, expanding Wampold’s catalog of managed properties across the state that includes hotels, apartment complexes and business plazas.
“We really create and maintain extraordinary live, work and play environments,” says Mike Wampold, the company’s founder and CEO. “And extraordinary means different from the norm.”
Mike, who founded the company in 1982 with no formal real estate experience, started his portfolio developing 40- to 50-unit apartment complexes in Baton Rouge, a tradition that has evolved to include larger complexes of 200-plus units like the LSU-adjacent Bayonne at Southshore.
The company’s biggest development project in its early history came in 1986 when Wampold entered into a 20-year government lease to develop housing at Fort Polk, a US Army installation in Vernon Parish.
