Zehnder buys Bluebonnet office building

Zehnder Communications, a fast-growing advertising and marketing firm, has purchased an office building on Bluebonnet Boulevard and plans to move its local operations there next month. Zehnder bought the 4,020-square-foot building in the Bluebonnet Parc at Claycut for $630,000, says Troy Daigle of Donnie Jarreau Real Estate, who brokered the sale. The building, which had been occupied by a home health company, was vacant. Jeff Zehnder says his company needed more space. Zehnder had been in the LUBA building since Hurricane Katrina. “This is a great opportunity for us to own our own space,” says Zehnder. The new building is twice the size of the company’s current offices. Zehnder, which has recently been awarded contracts with the East Baton Rouge school system and the Baton Rouge Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, has boosted its local staff to eight employees and plans to hire two more workers.—Timothy Boone