Baton Rouge Development
 

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Mike Wampold announced Tuesday morning that a Marriott Renaissance hotel, the largest in Baton Rouge, will occupy the site of the unfinished Swaggart Ministry dorms he owns on Bluebonnet. Work will start on the 348-room resort in August-September, and it should be completed in a year. The $64 million hotel will include a restaurant operated by Dickie Brennan, along with a 20,000-square-foot conference center and a state-of-the-art fitness center.

http://www.businessreport.com/news/2...lans-marriott/

Awesome news. It is about time the Swaggart's unfinished dorms are put to good use.

Wish it was taller. But solid nonetheless. I foresee many of the top chain luxury hotels like the Marriott brand entering Baton Rouge as the city gets larger.

Well the shell of the building is already built. I am just happy that the empty shell which is an eyesore on Bluebonnet is now put to good use.

Very nice! Congrats to Baton Rouge. That area of town is booming.... where is this in relation to the Perkins Rowe development?

It is about 1/2 mile north of Perkins Rowe along Bluebonnet Blvd towards the Mall of La.
Speaking of growth , the huge Mall is also expanding, check the latest post.

I've always seen that mall as I pass by it on I-10 heading to New Orleans. It looks like pretty good sized mall too. How big is it officially? How many stores are in it and how many levels does the Mall of Louisiana have?

The Mall of La which opened in 1997 has five anchors and 170 specialty stores on two levels in 1.3 million sq. ft. of space.
The "Ring" roads contain another 2 dozen stores and restaurants with 300,000sq ft.
The new 210,000 sq ft outdoor expansion, The Boulevard, will open next spring and will contain 25 stores and restaurants. Already open is the 16 screen Rave Theatre.

The Brownstones
Downtown Townhomes

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40,000 sf Office & Retail
70,000 sf Residential

The Brownstones will be the first large-scale, mixed-use development in downtown Baton Rouge and will occupy almost half a city block bound by Laurel, Fifth and Main Streets. As currently planned, The Brownstones will be comprised of 60 new urban residential units, 30,000 sf of Class “A” office space and 10,000 sf of retail and underground parking for over 100 cars.

http://www.cprt.com/index.cfm?md=pag...mp=home&pid=39

Arden

200 acre Traditional Neighborhood Development in Mid City

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Designed to address a core need for affordable housing in Baton Rouge’s Mid-City area, Arden will incorporate smart growth principles from the ground up, and will be unique in the United States in terms of scale and caliber. Built on 200 acres of virgin property, this brand new traditional neighborhood will include mixed uses, incomes and ages, along with new schools, parks, churches and community centers.

http://www.cprt.com/index.cfm?md=pag...tmp=home&pid=9
http://www.neighborhoodplan.org/pdf/...et_5_26_06.pdf

Acadian Village

Mixed Use Development

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The property sits at the junction of several distinct Baton Rouge neighborhoods, including Southdowns, the Garden District and College Town, and boasts excellent access via Interstate 10 and major surface arteries (Perkins Road and Acadian Thruway). It is being developed as a modern, convenient “mixed-use village” with a variety of attractive destinations.

http://www.cprt.com/index.cfm?md=pag...mp=home&pid=11

great job
 

thanks for all you've done on updating. I've got two pieces of news.

1. i've heard that BRAC is developing a considerably large project on the site of the old Advocate building.

2. the new Keller project off of 1-12 is slated to have a Saks 5th Ave. which doesn't bode well with me because Saks shouldn't be in the suburbs.

River Studios & FilmPort

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A 150-acre film studio complex in West Baton Rouge Parish would feature eight soundstages, production facilities, a water tank to simulate filming at sea and full orchestra scoring stages among its post-production buildings. The $495 million project is set to open by 2009.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/8367577.html

Very nice, but it is in WBR. Hopefuly this will stimulate growth in the parish.

WBR has recently been "discovered" by many searching for new homes. In particular, the Brusly area has seen many new upper middle class developments and new retail to serve them. Many that are employed in the high paying petroleum sector do not wish to cross the bridge into BR but instead have decided stay on the westside.

Amphitheatre and LaSalle Lawn

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A lawn amphitheater seating 3,500 will open by mid-2008 in downtown Baton Rouge, replacing the A.Z. Young Building that once housed the state Department of Social Services beside the Pentagon Barracks on Third Street.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/8415232.html

PMAC expansion @ LSU

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The Pete Maravich Assembly Center is preparing for a new addition to its north side in the form of a new connecting practice facility. This sketch shows the practice facility from a northwestern angle. The two-floor practice facility will have courts and locker rooms to serve the men’s and women’s basketball, volleyball and gymnastics teams.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/8479747.html

II City Plaza

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Construction has started on the new building located in the CBD adjacent to City Plaza at Convention and North 4th Streets. Completion is scheduled for 2009.

http://www.wampold.com/comm.html

^ That's a nice looking building. :tup:

Groundbreaking today on new 19th Judicial Courthouse

The New Orleans Division of Walton Construction Company, LLC will break ground on a new Baton Rouge courthouse on Wednesday.

The $89 million courthouse will be built from the ground up, rising 12 stories and totaling 325,000 square feet. Construction is scheduled to be complete by December 2009. The facility will include 26 courtrooms, judges' chambers, jury assembly space for more than 300 people, a dining facility, and administration offices.

The new 19th Judicial Courthouse will be built on the site of the current municipal building parking lot. The building will rise above North Boulevard and will be on direct axis with the State Capitol Building on the opposite (north) end of Fourth Street. The building, as designed by Post Architects, will be an illuminated glass and concrete structure that will create a beacon at the foot of Fourth Street.

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Cabela's to open this fall

Destination superstore could attract up to 3 million visitors, becoming one of state's top tourist attractions

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layout of adjacent Sportsman's Park Shopping

Cabela's®, known as the World's Foremost Outfitter® of hunting, fishing and outdoor gear, will open its newest destination retail store in Gonzales, La., on Friday, October 5, 2007. The store, Cabela's first in Louisiana, is the company's 21st retail location in the country. The company's first location in Louisiana, the 175,000-square-foot, large-format destination store is located between Baton Rouge and New Orleans at the intersection of I-10 and La 30. It will have a 49,000 gallon walk-through aquarium, a wildlife museum, running waterfalls and a trout pond. The store is expected to hire nearly 400 employees.

Meanwhile in east suburban Denham Springs, competitor Bass Pro expects to open a similar megastore for outdoors enthusiasts before the end of the year.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070806/aqm102.html?.v=15

Fantastic now our Rednecks have a place to shop! :cheers:

^ Hey, Cabelas kicks ass. Don't worry, though, I'm not the hunting outdoorsy type, I'm the fishing outdoorsy type. :)

Blue Cross Blue Shield

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Construction of a new $33 million, 136,000sq ft office building and parking garage at its corporate campus opposite I 10 from the Mall of Louisiana off Blue Cross Pkwy. Estimated completion is December 2008.

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another rendering of the 19th Judicial District Courthouse now under construction on the south side od the CBD.........

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Pinnacle’s 'Riviere' project receives Gaming Board OK
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

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The Louisiana Gaming Board has approved Pinnacle Entertainment's request to transfer a casino license from Lake Charles to Baton Rouge and build a resort on River Road called Riviere, which is French for river. The first stage, which still must be approved by voters, will include a 70,000 square foot riverboat casino, called Casino Riviere, with about 1,500 slot machines and 50 table games, along with restaurants, an entertainment venue with about 1,000 seats, and a 100-room hotel, Pinnacle says. They say the $250 million project will create 1,100 direct jobs with a $33 million payroll. The project next goes to the Metro Council, which would be responsible for setting the date for the voter referendum. Pinnacle hopes for a vote in February. The gambling boat the centerpiece of a massive entertainment/retail/residential complex with a golf course on more than 550 acres around River Road and Gardere Lane. Although there is no timeline for the next phase and approval of Phase One does not legally commit Pinnacle to the larger project.

Every city has its' list of "never built' projects.
Featured as part of its' 25th Anniversary Edition, the Baton Rouge Business Report ran an interesting section titled "Fruitless Renderings" identifying larger projects that never "came to be, for now".
All I can say is, "if only!"
the link to their special edition: http://www.businessreport.com/print-...007/sep/25/15/
the link to this section: http://www.businessreport.com/news/2...derings-rlet1/
Kudos to the BBBR for the renderings.....

Centre Regency
This 30-story luxury hotel, to be built near Interstate 10 and Bluebonnet Boulevard, was slated to cost more than $150 million

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City dock complex
A planned a $4 million, 35,000-square-foot restaurant/office complex on the city dock just south of the Interstate 10 bridge. The three-story complex was to have two restaurants on the first floor and office spaces on the second and third floors.

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Eskan Group twin towers
An Egyptian motif would have been appropriate in the apartments in this twin-tower retirement community development to be built on Lee Drive by the Eskan Group. The towers were to house one- and two-bedroom luxury condominiums.

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Laurel Tower
Rick Hartley and David Vey planned a 26-story, 752,000-square-foot tower they said was going to reinvent the downtown mind-set. The building was to take up an entire city block between River Road and Lafayette Street and Florida and Laurel streets.

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Fidelity Bank Tower
Plans for the $50 million, 30-story office tower was to have 500,000 square feet of office space, covering an entire city block.

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River House condominiums
The 15-story condominiums were supposed to offer high-rise living accommodations downtown. The Schild-Eaton development was expected to be open in 1987.

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Riverside Towers
Construction was expected to begin in the fall of 1986 on twin 23-story buildings adjacent to the Centroplex. One building was to be a hotel, and the other was set to be an office complex

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Post some of your city's never-builts.

Rouzan

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A public library would accompany residential, retail and office space, as well as a school and church, in the Rouzan neighborhood, which developer Tommy Spinosa says would be built over about five years.
Fords Pasture is off Perkins Rd between Southdowns and Pennington Biomedical Research.
link to the story in theadvocate
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/10446532.html

Turner Industries plans new training and recruiting facility

Notes of note:

> Turner Industries, headquartered in Baton Rouge is one of the world's largest industrial contractors with more than 15,000 employees world-wide.

> This is another in the increasing "campus style" developments along I-10 south of the Essen Medical corridor.

Turner Industries bought a 2.4-acre tract Wednesday south of Interstate 10 near the Highland Road interchange. Sales records show the industrial contractor paid $1.5 million for the land on Highlandia Drive. The seller is listed as the Chandamuri family.

Thomas Turner, vice chairman of Turner Industries, said Thursday that construction will begin in the spring on a 20,000-square-foot facility and should be complete by late 2008.

In August, Turner Industries was one of nine local companies named to Inc. magazine’s list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The magazine pegged the company’s annual revenue at $1.4 billion.

Turner said architect Tray Trahan is handling the new building’s design.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/10964476.html

another rendering of the new Basketball Practice Facility on the north side of the PMAC. Construction will start in the Spring.

rendering courtesy of the Reveille

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Developer considers 75-seat hall in renovated Kress building

By CHRIS GAUTREAU
Advocate business writer
Published: Nov 14, 2007

Cyntreniks Group said Tuesday it is considering building a 75-seat theater in its Kress at Third & Main project, the renovated Kress/Welsh & Levy/Knox building downtown.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/11261726.html

The BR CBD has not had a theatre since the late 70's, when we had three.

Fresh Market opening Dec. 5

AP Business
Published: Nov 16, 2007

The Fresh Market, the upscale grocery store recently built in Perkins Rowe, will open at 9 a.m. Dec. 5.

The new store will be the second Louisiana location for The Fresh Market, presently open in Mandeville on New Orleans Northshore, with another opening soon in Lafayette. Founded in 1982 in Greensboro, N.C., its grocery stores are modeled after old-world European markets. Each store features an old-style butcher counter, fresh seafood selection, an aromatic bakery and selection of garden-fresh produce, according to a press release from the company.

The Perkins Rowe store, at 10555 Perkins Road near Bluebonnet, will employ about 90.

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Riverview, a new TND on the Westside

Located at the western foot of the Mississippi River bridge, Riverview is less than 5 minutes from downtown.

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BR and Louisiana home prices buck national trend in third quarter

AP Business
Business Today Newsletter

Published: Nov 29, 2007

Baton Rouge and the state bucked the trend in a report showing home prices nationwide marked a quarterly decline for the first time in 13 years in the third quarter, providing fresh evidence of the housing market slump.

Home prices dipped 0.4 percent nationwide in the July-September period, compared with the previous quarter, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said.

Baton Rouge was one of the more healthy markets. The report said home prices increased 1.3 percent from the previous quarter, which ranked No. 21 among all metropolitan areas nationwide.

The Baton Rouge market is up 7.4 percent from the third quarter of 2006.

Louisiana, meanwhile, saw prices increase statewide about 1.2 percent from the previous quarter and 5.4 percent from the year-ago period, according to the report.

According to OFHEO’s data, many of the cities and states experiencing the sharpest declines in the quarter were the same areas that had posted the sharpest increases a couple of years ago during the housing boom.

LaVie

I-12/O’Neal development plan set for meeting

AP Business
Business Today Newsletter

Published: Nov 29, 2007

A mixed-use development anchored by a movie studio near Interstate 12 and O’Neal Lane and originally touted at $1.6 billion will go before the city-parish Planning and Zoning Commission on Dec. 10.

La Vie, on 995 acres bounded by I-12, O’Neal, S. Harrell’s Ferry and the Amite River, is the newest project from developer R.W. Day.

It would have 875 single-family lots on 145 acres, or 15 percent of the site, and 650 residential units on 97 acres, or about 10 percent of the site, according to plans filed with the planning commission.

The development would also have 3 million square feet of commercial space on 184 acres, or about 19 percent of the property.

Word of the project first broke at the Red Stick Animation Festival this spring, when Chuck Bush, owner of the production company, Resurgent Entertainment, said he would locate his offices there.

The plans provide no details on the studio, but Bush has said it would include sound stages and a film and video production training facility.

Day will have to submit further details on the project if the requested zoning change from rural to planned unit development is granted by the commission next month and the Metro Council on Jan. 16.

The plans indicate access to the project will come from O’Neal Lane at Medical Center Drive and a planned extension of S. Harrell’s Ferry. It also mentions the possibility of a new exit off of I-12, just east of the O’Neal
interchange.

link to extensive presentation of this massive development>>>>>>>>>.
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BR Area Chamber mapping system combines features of 9 parish region to pinpoint best location for business!

"Not to merely see the traditional maps of towns and rivers and parish boundaries.

But to see where floodplains are, to see where navigable streams are, to know how the proximity of churches and schools and houses and roads might influence a manufacturer’s interest in a property.

In general, the closer to ports, railroads, multilane highways and major utilities, the better for manufacturers and distributors. Proximity to dense residential areas, schools, churches and other public places can raise red flags for safety and security reasons.

Having a single map find all those assets and liabilities - in exactly the framework a business wants to see it - can be a gold mine for parishes courting industry. A custom map can weigh all the features that interest a company at different percentages of importance, then color code the parish to identify the strongest sites.

[B]link to story in advocate>B]url]http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/11972811.html[/url]

Construction has started on the first unit in Westmoreland Place, an upscale residential development in Mid City. The units will sell for between $870,000 and $1.1 million. Thornton, Harvison and Rhodes Real Estate is developing Westmoreland Place, which will be built at the corner of Broussard and Westmoreland. Ritter/Mayer Architects designed the complex and Key Design and Build is the contractor.

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Acme Oyster House coming to Perkins Road: Acme Oyster House, the legendary New Orleans seafood restaurant, is scheduled to open its first Baton Rouge location next summer as part of the redeveloped Acadian Village Shopping Center.

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A rendering of the new $63 million Business Education Complex LSU hopes to begin building this summer.

LSU hopes to begin construction this summer on a new $63 million Business Education Complex consisting of a centerpiece four-floor rotunda, two rows of classroom buildings and a large auditorium.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/12297991.html

Bluebonnet hotel rebrands into Hyatt Place

A $3 million renovation has turned the AmeriSuites hotel at Bluebonnet Boulevard and Interstate 10 into Hyatt Place. Sherry Gomez, director of sales, says the hotel is being rebranded as part of a companywide effort. The renovations included remodeling all 126 guest rooms, equipping them with contemporary furnishings and high-definition TVs, adding self-check in kiosks and offering 24-hour dining, including beer and wine. "We created a new hotel inside an old building," Gomez says. "They stripped everything down to the studs and concrete." The Bluebonnet location was the 80th hotel to be renovated as part of an effort by Hyatt to bring in more upscale business travelers; the Chicago-based chain is transforming more than 140 hotels into its new Hyatt Place concept. It took about two and a half months to complete the overhaul. --Timothy Boone GBR Bus Report

So many mutifamily developments have been announced, they cannot all be listed here.
Here are a few underway>>>>>>>>.

Madison Park-Goodwood Avenue~The site is located at the corner of Goodwood Boulevard and Lobdell Avenue in the Seven Oaks area. Plans include 70 two- and three-bedroom units ranging from 1,200 to 2,100 square feet. Prices will range from $200,000 to $500,0000.

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Milleneum-Towne Center~Located in Baton Rouge’s prestigious Bocage district, adjacent to upscale shopping and dining at Towne Center

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The Enclave at Towne Center~The Enclave at Town Center, 6929 Commerce Cir., Dale M. Songy, architect; $20,000,000 new construction of three-story, 27-unit apartment building


Camden Lakes~2525 O’Neal Ln., James D. Dodds, architect; $18,557,000 new construction of 10-building apartment complex and clubhouse

Indigo Park~located south of LSU off Nicholson and Gardere

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Field House Baton Rouge~on Nicholson at the North gates of LSU

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Victory Commons~Upscale, gated condominiums just footsteps from Tiger Stadium and a short bike ride from Downtown

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Hooper Pointe~4888 Hooper Rd. $10.6 million new construction of 16-building apartment complex.

Camden Lake~240-unit upscale development on O'Neal Lane.

Mallard Crossing~ out Greenwell Springs Rd near Sherwood Forest, 188 units.

Canterbury House~on Sherwood Forest north of I-12

Perkins Rowe... 317-units (Bluebonnet Blvd./Perkins Road)

Ivy Park... 252-units (Jones Creek Rd. near Tiger Bend Rd.)

Tuscany Reserve... 274-units (Siegen Marketplace near I-10)

Millenium Towne Center...276-units (Jefferson Hwy.)

The Enclave @ Towne Center...270-units (off Corporate Blvd.) >> with parking garage

Bristol....324-units (Siegen between I-10/Airline Hwy.)>> with parking garage

Camden Lakes...224 units (O'Neal south of I-12)

Regent ...318-units (Millerville Rd. at I-12)

Jefferson Crossing...180-units

Highland Club....44-units (Jefferson Hwy. south of Highland Rd.)

Crescent at University Lake...165-units (Stanford Ave. @ BR Beach)

Fieldhouse Gameday Condo's...99-units (Nicholson/Northgate LSU)

Victory Commons....52-units (Nicholson/Northgate LSU)

Preserve @ Longwood....330-units (Nicholson south)

Stone Lake...60-units; 1st phase (Burbank Exwy.)

Arlington Trace...74-units (Brightside Ln; south of LSU)

St.Louis Pointe... 24-units (Bard Ave.)

Southern Woods....60-units (Hooper Rd.)

Cottages @ Southfork....93-units (off So.Sherwood Forest Blvd.)

Aubin Court.....units??45+ Aubin Lane

Baywood Quarters....56-units (Boardwalk Ave./No.Harrel's Ferry Rd)

Villa Ashley....50 duplex units (off No.Ardenwood)

Brookstown West...25-houses

Banyan Trace Phase II...20-houses (McClelland/Hollywood Ave.)

Commerce Square Townhomes~Commerce Drive s suburban Gonzales, 30 townhouse units

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The Village at Shenandoah ~Jones Creek Road

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River Palms~98-units opposite Capitol Lake (No.Third Street)

Brownstones at Laurel~70 units in the CBD (Laurel Street/Fifth Street)

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One Eleven....12 units that will go up next to the Shaw Center for the Arts in the CBD. Another element of One Eleven will be a new restaurant in the old Stroube's Building )

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Kress and Welsh and Levy @ Third & Main....also in the CBD, Welsh-Levy will have a 3,800-square-foot restaurant on the first floor and residential units above. The project has 22 residential spaces total: three, two-bedroom units for sale and 19 units for rent of four studio lofts, seven one-bedroom units and eight two-bedroom units.

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all renderings courtesy of project websites

Baton Rouge-East: LIGO Observatories link with others to detect gamma rays
 

LSU partners with Washington State, Cal Tech and MIT labs in solving galactic riddle

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory facilities north of east-suburban Livingston along with its' sister facilities in Hanford, Washington state, searching the heavens for never-before-detected gravitational waves have helped astrophysicists narrow down the cause of a massively bright explosion in deep space observed last winter.

The facilities span an area five miles wide in the piney woods of suburban Baton Rouge..........
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photos courtesy of LIGO website.

link to story in theadvocate:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/sci...l?index=18&c=y

link to website:http://www.ligo-la.caltech.edu/

Riverfront Mixed Use development

Deal closes on riverfront project

By ADVOCATE BUSINESS STAFF

Published: Jan 10, 2008

Sales records show developer Pete Clements closed Tuesday on the $13.5 million purchase of a 36-acre tract of riverfront land north of Hollywood Casino.

The site was owned by Luhr Brothers Inc. of Columbia, Ill., a company that used the site to store rock, gravel and other construction materials.

Clements, who has been negotiating for the land since early last year, has said he plans to build a mixed-use development there, including 800 to 1,200 residential units, as well as 300,000 to 600,000 square feet of commercial space.

He could not be reached immediately Thursday. But in March, Clements told the Downtown Development District that the residential units would likely target midrange-income tenants.

Part of the negotiations included Clements’ offer to sell four acres to Hollywood Casino.

Both parties had been working on a plan to build an underpass under the downtown rail line that would guarantee uninterrupted access to the casino site. Access becomes blocked whenever trains pass through downtown.

The Settlement at Willow Grove is being carved from the historic Kleinpeter farm on Perkins Road. The 111-acre settlement will offer quaint retail shopping, a network of 10 parks including a 14-acre linear park.

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renderings courtesy of and link to the website: http://www.willowgrovehomes.com/thesettlement.cfm

Americana

Americana, the sprawling, 415-acre traditional neighborhood development proposed for Zachary, is set to go before the city-parish Planning Commission on Jan. 22, according to notices filed.

Shearwater Communities bought the tract at La. 64 and Mount Pleasant-Zachary Road in September for $15.5 million.

Pending approval, Americana would offer more than 1,400 residential units, more than 400,000 square feet of commercial retail space and 70,000 square feet of retail and office space.

Shearwater officials, who were not immediately available Friday, have said construction could take at least 15 years to complete and could top $1 billion in total investment.

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renderings courtesy of and link to webpage: http://www.americanatnd.com/

Rouzon
off Perkins opposite Moss Side

At their meeting last Wednesday, the City/Parish council approved the latest TND for Baton Rouge, Rouzon. This came despite the many voices of protest from neighboring Southdowns residents.

Rouzon, website....http://www.rouzan.net/index.html
is being developed by JTS interests, builders of the recently opened, but already extremely popular Perkins Rowe in Baton Rouge; the Lakes at Cinco Ranch and Watermarke in Houston, Texas; and Citiplace in Baton Rouge.

some renderings from JTS....
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Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World

Coupled with the Cabela's which opened last October south on I-10, Baton Rouge is one of only seven cities nationwide with both stores.

STORE OPENS FEBRUARY 7TH

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Denham Springs, Louisiana (January 29th, 2008)--Bass Pro Shops, recently voted the #1 outdoor retailer in America by Sporting Goods Business Magazine, will celebrate its 48th store's Grand Opening beginning at 8:00 AM Thursday, February 7th and continuing through Sunday, February 10th. The new Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World will include an Islamorada Fish Company Restaurant and is located at I-12 and Range Avenue.
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nation's largest Bass Pro will anchor 75 acre mixed-use development, Lakefront Centre
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.......the story in the Advocate incorrectly refers to it as a dairy farm. It is located on (the old) Plank Rd at Choctaw. This large historical building has been vacant since who knows when and when complete will be perfect for this use. It will also put some much needed energy into the old NBR community. The film company is making a huge presence in BR, joining with three other film studios wanting to be part of "Hollywood South".

Skinny Giraffe Films, the Baton Rouge film-production company, said Wednesday it could have a deal in place within the next month to buy an old dairy farm in north Baton Rouge that would be converted to a $10 million film studio.

Kirk Kepper of Skinny Giraffe said the 150,000-square-foot creamery near Choctaw Drive and Interstate 110 is owned by the Claitor family and dates back to the 1920s.

Kepper said his company plans to refurbish the main building and transform it to a film production facility.

“We’ll probably be finalized within the next month,” he said. “There’s a few things to iron out, but we are 100 percent going forward with this."

Some of their releases are The Way of War, which starred Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr, Trance a horror movie that's headed to the Berlin International Film Festival in February (2008) and The American Standards (2007) starring James Brolin.

Local rapper Lil' Boosie also shot a music video in the dairy.

http://www.skinnygiraffefilms.com/home.html

The Village at Magnolia Square recently announced TND underway off Lovett Rd in Central

The Village at Magnolia Square is a traditional neighborhood with homes ranging from $175,000 to over $1,000,000. The development will include a central square with a café, light retail, restaurants and office space. The development will also include a fitness center and numerous parks. The development is designed to allow people to live, work, and play in a walkable, pedestrian-friendly environment.
http://www.vmsla.com/pdf/DesignCode_05_09_07.pdf
http://www.vmsla.com/green.html

Celtic Media Centre, BR's first film studio continues to expand

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Celtic Media Centre will begin work soon on its fourth building at the film and television production facility it opened near Bluebonnet Boulevard and Airline Highway in October.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/15898342.html

http://www.thecelticmediacentre.com/