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Years in the making, Baton Rouge’s newest museum will finally come to fruition this summer

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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Rain delays might have slowed construction in 2016, but the much-anticipated Knock Knock Children’s Museum is expected to open doors on schedule in City Park sometime this summer. Quietly underway since 2010, the museum is the brainchild of a handful of community volunteers and education experts whose intent was to build a ground-up, best-in-class children’s […]

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Contractors Association, State Board Join Forces to Build New Downtown Office Building

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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Louisiana Associated General Contractors and the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors are teaming up to develop a new four-story building in downtown Baton Rouge that will house offices for both entities.

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Kip Holden’s Last Ribbon-cutting, for a Downtown Baton Rouge Trail System, Holds Echoes to His First

News Source: The Advocate

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The chairs were set up, music queued, fact sheets and maps printed, and lectern and ceremonial red ribbon wheeled out. The Wednesday evening production organized by Baton Rouge officials was attended by heads of agencies, business leaders and elected officials — who briefly diverted a fire engine with sirens screaming — to celebrate the completion of less […]

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Looking back: Baton Rouge’s most talked about restaurant openings in 2016

News Source: 225 Magazine

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It may have been a tough year in just about every other way, but 2016 was a great 12 months for Baton Rouge’s culinary scene. As you get ready to kiss 2016 goodbye this New Year’s, make a resolution to check all these new spots off your “must-try” list.

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New Downtown Restaurant, Cocha, Opens Today

News Source: 225 Magazine

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Offering global-meets-Southern cuisine, the downtown restaurant Cocha is set to open today at 445 N. Sixth St. In a Facebook post, Cocha’s owners announced they would open to the public Wednesday, Dec. 28, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

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Downtown Baton Rouge’s largest apartment complex yet is officially underway

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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Surrounded by city leaders and his extended family, developer John O. Hearin broke ground today on the Lofts at 6C, his 142-unit apartment complex that will span nearly a full city block between Convention, Florida and Sixth streets.

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Baton Rouge-New Orleans commuter rail still on governor’s priority list

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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A recent federal grant set in motion the infancy of a long-discussed commuter rail project from Baton Rouge to New Orleans, but many of the components of the project are still up in the air, and the state would have to find around $260 million to fund it.

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Rouses to anchor Arlington Marketplace shopping center near LSU

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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Rouses Supermarket is planning its third Baton Rouge store at Burbank and West Lee drives, and it will anchor a large development called Arlington Marketplace that will feature around 10 to 12 small retailers, quick service restaurants and a midsized box store.

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Restaurant and pie shop to open in former Honeymoon Bungalow building in Mid City

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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A new restaurant and pie shop is coming to Mid City, with Elsie’s Plate & Pie set to open in the former Honeymoon Bungalow building on Government Street in a few months. Paul Dupre, owner of Elsie’s Plate & Pie, says he plans to begin renovations to the building in the next month and open […]

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First buildings at River House set to open in January

News Source: Baton Rouge Business Report

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After more than a year of construction, several buildings at the mixed-use River House development on Nicholson Drive are nearing completion. The 34,000-square-foot, three-story office building and the clubhouse-leasing office will both be completed in January and ready for tenant occupancy.

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