Group of young businessmen working to restore historic Baton Rouge landmark
Young businessmen working to revitalize Baton Rouge s historic Hotel Lincoln By Donovan Jackson | February 3, 2021 at 5:38 PM CST - Updated February 4 at 12:37 PM
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The Hotel Lincoln, built in the 1950â²s is a historic landmark in Baton Rouge where musical legends like James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and many others stayed while visiting the capital city. Now, it just an abandoned building, like so many other sites near south Baton Rouge.
âWe had a lot of black flight to the suburbs, and it really drained a lot of our neighborhoods of property owners and business owners. People took their houses and their businesses with them,â said Anthony Kimble, owner of Kimble Properties.