Developer Tommy Spinosa’s popular $200 million mixed-use project looks like Dallas and feels like Disney, but it’s also the target of legal actions totaling about $30 million.
The River House mixed-use development recently received site plan approval from the East Baton Rouge Parish planning commission.
Louisiana has some of the lowest property taxes in the nation. Changing the homestead exemption would just discourage business and industry from expanding in Louisiana or locating here. Plus: Session wish list, free speech California style, worried about Gill and Louisiana moves up in the world.
E Eric Guirard can no longer practice law, but that doesn’t prevent him from taking his business model to another field.
Lawmakers suggest the real debate should focus on increasing millages after property has been reappraised.
Rivalries might have to take a back seat to financial sense as state athletic programs prepare for budget cuts.
LSU’s AgCenter is seen as a model among state institutions for commercializing intellectual property.
The manager of ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge refinery credits a disciplined approach for the company’s financial success.
Baton Rouge’s new distribution plant combines environmentally friendly technology with expanded production capabilities.
A bill to give developer Mike Wampold a generous TIF is sailing through the Legislature. Wampold would get to keep hotel and sales taxes, at a time when revenue can't keep up with government appetites.
Gov. Bobby Jindal was supposed to be in a world of hurt this legislative session, because of angry lawmakers. But in the first few weeks, he reasserted his influence and authority over the Legislature, thanks to slick moves and an efficient staff.
The week that Maggie Heyn Richardson wrote her May 5 “Women in Business” column about Facebook’s diminishing returns as a business tool, a waste of time that fluffs the ego while projects fester and real-life opportunities pass you by, the White House became a member of the social-networking site.
If there was any question about what kind of impact the national recession is having on the local market, it was answered on April 28.
May 19, 2009 issue
May 19, 2009 issue
May 19, 2009 issue
May 19, 2009 issue
How is it possible that the same automobile brand responsible for the muscular, beautiful GTOs and Firebirds of the late 1960s and early 1970s could come out with something as hideous as the Aztek, a Frankenstein’s monster of confused identity that debuted in 2001 and is regularly featured on lists of the ugliest cars of all time?
Where should a revamped downtown East Baton Rouge Library be located?
