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Article: A plan for Baton Rouge
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- The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report
- Article date:
- July 15, 2008
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There's no question downtown Baton Rouge is more vibrant now than it has been in decades. The city-parish says there's been more than $1.5 billion in new investment just in the past decade.
But the progress has been driven by public investment; most important, the consolidation of state government offices downtown. Baton Rouge is a fairly typical American city in that, up until very recently, there has been a dearth of private investment in the city's core.
"We were too convinced, the real estate community especially was too convinced, that the wants and desires of the population lay outside of cities," says Alex Krieger of Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, an architecture, urban design and planning ...