BATON ROUGE - A project to revitalize downtown Baton Rouge is in the works. The Downtown Development District and the Baton Rouge Area Chamber are partnering to identify empty storefronts and recruit businesses to fill these vacancies.
The cohort of more than 100 Baton Rouge-area community leaders in business, local government and education came away from the Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s canvas trip to Greenville, South Carolina, with a familiar tune: The need for a focus on downtown.
BATON ROUGE - Wednesday night, the Metro Council ended up approving over $2 million to renovate the Raising Cane s River Center with the goal of getting more people downtown and spending money.