Andrews: Big changes coming to HUD
HUD offices across the nation will be closed Friday as part of a program to reduce costs through unpaid furloughs. The closure means the offices will be shuttered for four days through the Memorial Day weekend, so anyone with time critical issues...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Real Estate Weekly
Real estate recap: Rouzan viable with or without a library, representatives say … MAPP, architects in settlement talks over Baton Rouge High … Marriott Residence Inn to get new look
In or out: If the East Baton Rouge Library Board of Control does, in fact, decide to pull the plug on the long-planned Rouzan library and relocate the branch elsewhere—as board members indicated last week that they may well...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Real Estate Weekly
Cook: River Road industrial site sells
Hercules Trucking, doing business as Hercules Tec, has purchased a 43.9-acre tract on River Road, just downriver from Bear Industries in Iberville Parish. The sale closed on May 13 for $824,500, or about $18,780 per acre. The property, which...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Real Estate Weekly
Property of the Week
Following several delays, the nearly $1 million Galvez Plaza sculpture and stage cover is now expected to be finished in June. Workers were recently forced to stop working while the Bonnie and Clyde miniseries and Search Party movie...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Real Estate Weekly
Under assault
(From The New York Times) Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China’s People’s Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: News
Construction on Harveston expected to begin in coming weeks
Builders received permits Monday from the city-parish to begin construction on homes in The Preserve at Harveston—the 95-acre, first phase of Mike Wampold and John Fetzer's planned 1,200-acre mixed-use development straddling the Bluebonnet...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Real Estate Weekly
Capital Region home sales 16% higher than last year through April
Bolstered by a strong April, in which home sales in the eight-parish Capital Region were up 28%, 2013 sales are now 16% higher than they were through April a year ago. That's according to the latest monthly sales report from the Greater Baton Rouge...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Real Estate Weekly
Local camps for critter-loving kids
If your children are ready to go wild this summer, BREC offers a variety of camps that allow kids to experience animal encounters and appreciate nature.
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Unleashed
CATS board considers marketing, public relations contract today
When the CATS board meets this afternoon, among the items on its agenda will be the renewal of a public relations and marketing contract with Clay Young Enterprises, a local PR firm that has been representing the transit agency on a temporary basis...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
Maginnis: The old two-year college try
In the past five hard years of higher education's declining state support, rising tuition, defecting faculty and deteriorating facilities, college leaders have stuck together and let the Board of Regents coordinate their requests for funding from...
DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Daily Report
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