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It’s been more than two years since Baton Rouge received $579,000 in federal funding to build bike lanes on both sides of Hyacinth Avenue, from Glasgow Avenue to Stanford Avenue. Turns out, the money was only half of what was needed for approximately 4,800 feet of four-foot-wide bike lanes, and the state Department of Transportation […]
January 20, 2013
Local businessman and investor John Engquist has acquired the mortgage on the Rouzan development from BancorpSouth for an undisclosed price. Engquist, president and CEO of H&E Equipment, tells Daily Report he is “involved with a group that has purchased the note and has basically taken the position of the bank.” He declines to provide further […]
January 20, 2013
If you don’t live in Southdowns you may have been inclined to chalk up the recent battle over a property owner’s requested zoning change as just another neighborhood land-use dispute. But the brouhaha surrounding Ben Skillman’s property raises interesting questions about the city’s new land-use plan, FuturEBR: how it defines a residential neighborhood and what […]
January 19, 2013
Trader Joe’s, a 13,000-square-foot specialty supermarket, will be the anchor tenant for a 54,000-square-foot shopping center, Acadian Village, at Perkins Road and Acadian Thruway. Acadian Village plans to include several other high-end, well-known national retailers, says Tina Rance, marketing director for the property. “Baton Rouge is the first Louisiana location for Trader Joe’s, and we […]
December 8, 2011
Rouzan final development plan draws opposition An attorney for two people who own three parcels of land where the Rouzan TND is under development on Perkins Road says his clients will have no choice but to file suit against the city-parish if its planning and zoning commission approves the final development plan for Rouzan on […]
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January 20, 2013
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