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BREC’s 2025 budget rises to $115M, boosting salaries and capital investments
BREC’s budget for fiscal year 2025 stands at $115.7 million, an increase of $15.2 million—or 15.2%—from FY 2024.
Notably, the budget, which has been approved by the BREC Commission, calls for $32.3 million to be...
This Baton Rouge online boutique is closing after a short-lived rebrand
Lily and Park, formerly Blu Spero Boutique and Apricot Lane, is closing its online women’s clothing store after years of rebranding and legal battles.
The online women’s boutique announced its plans to close Monday, less...
Feds sue former state Rep. Barry Ivey’s company over $339K in unpaid taxes
The federal government has filed a lawsuit against Pinnacle Precision Services, a Baton Rouge area industrial contractor, in an effort to recover $339,530.85 in unpaid federal taxes and enforce federal tax liens on a...
Meet 2025 Executive of the Year Kristin Wall
It would be strange if Kristin Wall didn’t spend the early morning hours forwarding a blitz of news items to her executive team. The LWCC president and CEO starts every workday devouring local and...
Meet 2025 Company of the Year MAPP
It all began with a chance encounter at Drusilla Restaurant in 1991 when Mike Polito bumped into Cajun Industries’ Lane Grigsby during a construction awards ceremony.
Polito was working for a New Orleans contractor at...
Honoring 2025 Hall of Fame Laureate Jay Campbell
Travel elsewhere around the country, and it’s hard to find the abundance of family-owned independent supermarkets that thrive across the Capital Region. Outlets like Calandro’s, Calvin’s Bocage Market, Matherne’s, Alexander’s and Oak Point Market...
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The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport experienced a record year for passenger volume in 2024.
BTR welcomed 844,025 passengers in 2024, an average of 70,335 monthly passengers, up 10.65% from 762,789 the previous year. The year 2019 held the previous record...
