Curbside, the popular Mid City hamburger restaurant, is adding a space for catering and events and eyeing two locations in Baton Rouge for an additional restaurant.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
While casino revenues rose statewide, Baton Rouge's three riverboat casinos saw their winnings drop 15.6 percent in June, the same month the citywide ban on smoking in most public places took effect.
The Louisiana Gaming Control Board on Thursday approved Penn National Gaming’s $2.8 billion purchase of Pinnacle Entertainment.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Ballard Brands in Covington has purchased along with partners the Garces Group of Philadelphia, a restaurant and catering company with several Latin-American concepts that could make their way to Louisiana.
A land bank for national homebuilder D.R. Horton has purchased a 178-acre site off Jones Creek and started building the infrastructure for the controversial Lakes at Jones Creek development.
Sasol will begin testing several systems and machinery over the next few months in advance of a startup of its $11.13 billion Lake Charles chemicals project in southwest Louisiana.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Pool Corp. on Thursday reported second-quarter profit of $117 million, compared to $94.9 million in the second quarter of 2017.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Land clearing for Baton Rouge’s first Atomic Burger has started and construction on the burger restaurant is expected to start in the next week or two.
Logistics company Brown Eagle will start up a new bulk solids contract packaging facility at the former Baton Rouge Beer Agency building in north Baton Rouge.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Hancock Whitney Corp. posted net income of $71.2 million, or 82 cents per share, in the second quarter, up from $52.3 million, or 60 cents per share, a year ago.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Forte & Tablada, a local engineering and surveying firm, has purchased an office building near the intersection of Interstate 12 and Airline Highway, which company officials said won't affect their plans to build a new headquarters in downtown…
Gallo Mechanical, a New Orleans-based business that provides plumbing and HVAC services to commercial businesses across the Gulf Coast, has purchased an office building on Exchequer Drive and will move its Baton Rouge offices there.
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Despite seeing its losses more than double over the last fiscal year, GB Sciences is pushing forward with phase two of its medical marijuana growing operation in Baton Rouge and has landed another $3.8 million in funding from its Louisiana investo…
The owner of the popular City Pork restaurants is opening a pizza parlor on Chimes Street in about a month.
Monday, July 16, 2018
The National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year, $42 million primary base grant to support the operation of the Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, the university said Monday.
Monday, July 16, 2018
Baton Rouge-based Bernhard Energy Solutions appointed Ed Tinsley as its new chief executive officer, the firm announced Monday, replacing retiring Steve Nathanson.
Offshore service vessel company Tidewater said Monday that it will acquire smaller rival GulfMark Offshore in an all-stock deal that will create a $1.25 billion combined company and enable Tidewater to expand its position in the North Sea.
Baton Rouge General and Vascular Specialty Center are opening the Mid City Specialty Center, an aumbulatory surgery center at the health center's Mid City campus.
Sunday, July 15, 2018
The oil price collapse four years ago that sent operators into bankruptcy and the state into a prolonged recession left Louisiana with another problem: nearly 2,000 new “orphan” oil and gas wells that pose the risk of a slow-moving environmental c…
Sports provides a big boost to the Baton Rouge economy, thanks to the hundreds of thousands of people every year who go to games on the LSU or Southern University campus. But the local tourism economy is also getting help from events regularly hel…
Workshop focuses on organic farming
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Friday, July 13, 2018
The Trump administration’s tough line on trade has caused the cost of some building materials to rise by as much as 20 percent, but local construction officials have said that’s not having any impact on any proposed developments.
Thursday, July 12, 2018
A Trump administration move to freeze billions in payments under the Affordable Care Act puts more than $41 million owed to Louisiana’s largest health insurer on hold, creating uncertainty in the market just as rates people will pay in 2019 are be…
The downtown location of Lava Cantina has closed for the summer to operate as a private party space, while the owner said he'll make a determination later if he'll reopen the rock and roll-themed Mexican restaurant.
Cortec LLC is spending $2.5 million to expand its industrial coatings facility in Port Allen, creating four new jobs, officials said Thursday.
Federal regulators plan to auction about 78 million acres of offshore oil and gas leases in the western, central and eastern Gulf of Mexico next month.
Tuesday, July 10, 2018
A Miami-based private equity firm has bought ASAP Industries Manufacturing Inc., a Houma firm that builds products used in oil and gas production.
Benny’s has purchased a nearly 2-acre site on Lee Drive for $1.5 million with plans to build its eighth local car wash.
The owners of Eliza Restaurant & Bar are opening an “authentic New Orleans neighborhood po-boy shop” on Jefferson Highway in the space formerly home to MJ’s Cafe.
CME Group and Cheniere Energy Inc. have reached an agreement to develop an LNG futures contract with physical delivery to Cheniere's Sabine Pass terminal in southwest Louisiana.
Monday, July 09, 2018
Lockport-based Bollinger Shipyards has selected Tampa Shipyard for design and construction if the company lands a contract for up to three heavy polar icebreakers and three medium-sized breakers that are being considered by the U.S. Coast Guard.
Amazon.com has applied for a permit to build a 21,306-square-foot distribution center for small packages just off Airline Highway and Interstate 12, near Costco, in Baton Rouge.
Sunday, July 08, 2018
The Pelican State Portfolio, a group of Louisiana stocks tracked by The Advocate, continued to lag behind the quarterly performance of the broader market.
Protostripes expands in new location
Friday, July 06, 2018
Last spring, Louisiana officials unveiled a major foreign investment project in the state: A $1.12 billion manufacturing complex by Chinese chemical giant Wanhua. That project's now caught in the middle of a trade war between the U.S. and China an…
Galatoire’s Bistro in Baton Rouge has closed and will be replaced by another restaurant group that bought out its lease and plans to redevelop the building into an upscale, casual restaurant and bar.
Thursday, July 05, 2018
Bud’s Broiler, the popular New Orleans hamburger chain, is once again operating in Baton Rouge.
A Louisiana soybean farmer is bracing for a $150,000 hit annually from China's expected retaliation against U.S. tariffs set to go into effect Friday on $34 billion in Chinese goods.
Wednesday, July 04, 2018
The general contractor on Shintech’s $1.4 billion ethylene plant project in Plaquemine canceled two contracts with CB&I, citing hundreds of millions in cost overruns, according to financial and employment filings from the two companies.
Tuesday, July 03, 2018
Louisiana was ranked No. 2 in the South for the strongest economic development results in 2017 by Southern Business & Development magazine, based on the state’s share of capital investment and job creation projects.
Stephanie Manson is assuming the role of chief operating officer for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, succeeding Terrie Sterling, who will lead the continued development of OLOL's freestanding Children’s Hospital.
Baton Rouge-based First National Bankers Bankshares Inc. is opening a new capital markets office in Memphis, Tennessee.
Monday, July 02, 2018
Louisiana Economic Development has been designated as an Accredited Economic Development Organization, the first statewide agency in the U.S. to earn the recognition.
Amedisys, the publicly-traded home health company based in Baton Rouge, is nearly doubling its borrowing capacity by $250 million, to $550 million, in an effort to capitalize on new acquisition opportunities.