In The News


Cocha, Lava Cantina and more: the latest on downtown’s restaurant boom

News Source: 225 Magazine

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There’s a big fall and winter ahead for the downtown culinary scene, and we’ve got the scoop. Keep an eye out for these upcoming openings and fresh offerings from new restaurants in the heart of downtown.

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First Look at downtown’s newest restaurant, The Gregory

News Source: 225 Magazine

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Downtown’s got another new restaurant to add to your date night rotation. The Gregory is now open inside the Watermark Hotel, and it’s the kind of place you’ll want to bring someone you’re hoping to impress.

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First Look: Iverstine Family Farms expands reach with new butcher shop and smokehouse

News Source: 225 Magazine

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This Friday, the push for locally grown, sustainable food takes another giant step with the opening of Iverstine Farms Butcher.

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Developing Baton Rouge

Ground to break next Wednesday on @Highland tech office park

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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Ground will be broken next week on the planned @Highland tech office park, a campus-style office and commercial complex modeled after the campuses of high-tech giants like Apple and Microsoft and that will be located at the intersection of Highland Road and Bluebonnet Boulevard.

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New 142-unit apartment complex going vertical in downtown Baton Rouge

News Source: Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

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Construction is officially underway for the Lofts @ 6C, a new apartment complex in downtown Baton Rouge that’s expected to take about a year and half to build.

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Construction to start soon on $35 million Perkins Rowe Village apartments complex

News Source: The Advocate

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Construction should start “in the next week or so” on Park Rowe Village, a $35.2 million apartment complex in the Perkins Rowe mixed-use development. David Alexander, a partner in Vintage Realty, the Shreveport company that is developing Park Rowe Village, said the first apartments in the 336-unit development should be available for lease in spring […]

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French Truck Coffee opening Baton Rouge location

News Source: The Advocate

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French Truck Coffee, a New Orleans-based micro-roaster, plans to open its first Baton Rouge location in early 2017 on Government Street.

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Developing Baton Rouge

OLOL aims to open north Baton Rouge emergency room within 12 months

News Source: Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

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Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is aiming to open a 24/7 emergency room at the hospital’s LSU Health North Urgent Care Center on Airline Highway in north Baton Rouge within the next 12 months.

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Downtown Baton Rouge’s Riverfront Plaza to get facelift; new Magpie Café, hotel opening soon

News Source: The Advocate

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Plans are in the works to give Riverfront Plaza a facelift that will refurbish the area between the Baton Rouge RiverCenter and the city dock by redoing the landscape, removing some concrete and modernizing the architecture.

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Developing Baton Rouge

Superior Grill breaks ground on second Baton Rouge location

News Source: Greater Baton Rouge Business Report

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After more than 15 months of planning, Superior Grill recently began construction on its second Baton Rouge location.

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