Meet Charles Landry: Baton Rouge’s ‘Godfather of Growth’


    Charles Landry’s list of accolades and victories, both as a real estate attorney at Fishman Haygood and as a prominent developer and community visionary, reads more like the combined resumes of a dozen people than a single man.

    In the cover story of Business Report’s latest issue, Landry is described by those who know him as iconic, passionate, driven and relentless, earning him such monikers as “The Godfather of Growth” and even “PowerPoint King.” 

    “The creativity of developing or organizing a structure for a complex transaction … that is what I want to do until I put my pen down for the last time and my head hits the desk,” Landry says.

    Since the Lafayette native’s entrance on the Baton Rouge scene in the 1970s, he has become a virtual tour de force in many of the major real estate developments across the city and region—either as the legal counsel crafting legal documents for complex issues, an investor/developer, or in a pro bono capacity advancing an important cause.

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