Risk and Return

I have had a problem with the  Stanford Group, and the “CD’s” they were pushing, for several years now. No need to explain why at this point. Anyway, this has hit Baton Rouge extremely hard. I don’t believe in relative terms (outside of Antigua itself) any other community had a larger exposure to Stanford than [...]

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Baton Rouge Towne Center is being listed for sale:
A Dallas company is listing the Towne Center at Cedar Lodge retail center as an investment opportunity. Holliday Fenoglio Fowler is marketing the 358,000-square-foot shopping center as a trophy asset, noting that the retailers in Towne Center such as Whole Foods, American Eagle Outfitters and Coldwater Creek [...]

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To start, we are having a boom in our petrochemical industry :
“We have counted $45 billion in construction projects in the area, by far a record number for the region,” Scott says. While other parts of the country struggle economically, the Capital Region is experiencing growth in part from its expanding petrochemical industry.
The film industry [...]

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From Baton Rouge Business Report:
BREC’s Planning and Engineering Committee has unanimously recommended a 2.8-mile corridor from Siegen Lane to Bluebonnet Boulevard along Dawson and Ward creeks as the site for East Baton Rouge’s first “linear park.” The concept will be presented to the BREC Commission for possible approval at its next public meeting, scheduled for [...]

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The most prominent Indian American politician in American history has now been sworn in as governor:

Bobby Jindal took the oath of office as Louisiana’s 55th governor at noon today, becoming the state’s first non-white governor since Reconstruction. Jindal, a 36-year-old Republican and Baton Rouge native, won the October 2007 primary outright against 11 opponents with [...]

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Bardford Smith has penned a poem in honor of our LSU Tigers BCS championship win.

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While the economic outlook for the nation as a whole is pretty murky, Louisiana, and Baton Rouge specifically, may be in a better position:

Peter Ricchiuti, assistant dean of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University, said the New Orleans-area economy is countercyclical because of all the energy interests. When high energy prices cause [...]

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From The Baton Rouge Business Report we learn that one of the key linchpins in Baton Rouge’s rapid progress in revitalizing the downtown, the Shaw Center for the Arts, has been recognized by The American Institute of Architects:
The Shaw building is among 28 projects chosen from 800 entries for the award. Winners were recognized for [...]

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