Capitol Park Complex

[richyb83]

Impressive Buckett.......best wishes to your future!

 

Here is more....

http://www.businessreport.com/daily-report/AM/2282013/full/Spanish_Town_residents_concerned_about_sale_of_nearby_state_property#axzz2MESXUY3z

[richyb83]

They may have trouble selling this site...does not seem to be enough bang for the buck...no state Economic & Development bldg was never going to go on this site; when the country is borrowing 46 cents for every dollar it spends

 

Preis interested in insurance building site
 

Developer and property owner Richard Preis has long had his eye on the 17-lot tract in the shadow of the State Capitol that previously housed the Department of Insurance building. Now that the property is for sale, Preis is interested in buying it. "My family has owned land in that area since 1894," he says. "That particular piece of property has always intrigued me." The former insurance building site, which still has a two-story parking garage on it, is one of dozens of properties the state is trying to sell in order to come up with $47 million for the revenue side of its tight, 2013-14 operating budget. The state has budgeted $5 million for the insurance lot, a price that does not appear to faze Preis one way or the other. "The appraisal is what it is," he says. What does concern him is getting buy-in from residents of the adjacent Spanish Town neighborhood for any future development he might be involved in on the site. "If we could have positive participation from the neighborhood, the site would be of interest to me,"

Read more from Business Report here: http://www.businessreport.com/section/daily-reportAM#ixzz2Mn5BOrQ2

Edited March 6, 2013 by richyb83

[richyb83]

How about this at the old Insurance Bldg.(9-stories) site??.......Since the La. Economic Bldg.(5 stories) is not happening...this could face the Fifth Street side looking toward the Capitol...this would give more people a chance to live downtown/Spanish Town.. and a compromise of 4 floors...

 

[richyb83]

Hold up...wait a minute...maybe this will become an office building after all?? Will it resemble the office bldg. in Post#30?? Will post again on bottom....

 

Former department of insurance site may go to legislative auditor

A potential deal is in the works to sell the 1.1-acre vacant lot and parking garage on the capitol grounds to the Legislature, which would use the property for a new office building for the legislative auditor and his staff.

For his part, Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera is enthusiastic about the deal and says he has been working it hard, talking to legislative leaders and budget advisers to Gov Boby Jindal. More than 200 of his department's 300 employees work in Baton Rouge, crammed into 22,000 square feet on the first floor of the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeals, and he says he has long needed more space.

"The Department of Insurance has 280 people and a whole building to themselves," he says. "We have one little floor in one building."

Read more from Business Report here: http://www.businessreport.com/article/20130425/BUSINESSREPORT0112/130429869#ixzz2RuYwifB1

 

          

 

 

[Antrell Williams]

I sure hope so!

[richyb83]

This topic hasn't been archived yet..lol...   Can remember when this was first built...nice place...not surprising that not many tourist were using it...

 

Proposal to sell, close Capitol Park Welcome Center in Baton Rouge goes to lawmakers

 

https://www.businessreport.com/article/proposal-sell-close-capitol-park-welcome-center-baton-rouge-goes-lawmakers

 

I had an ole' pic of this..it's buried somewhere

 

[dan326]

Yeah, it was a good idea and location in theory but people probably didn't know what it was for, I didn't sure didn't, lol. If it had been marketed as a rest center maybe it would have been more visited.

[greg225]

This topic hasn't been archived yet..lol...   Can remember when this was first built...nice place...not surprising that not many tourist were using it...

 

Proposal to sell, close Capitol Park Welcome Center in Baton Rouge goes to lawmakers

 

https://www.businessreport.com/article/proposal-sell-close-capitol-park-welcome-center-baton-rouge-goes-lawmakers

 

I had an ole' pic of this..it's buried somewhere

 

I would love to see it remodel to 2 or 3 stories maybe 4 to a movie theater/bowling alley/restaurant .

[richyb83]

Like that idea Greg225

 

Have thought an entertainment complex like that might work well on Third Street at Laurel in the surface parking lot across the street from the Commerce Building (&440 on Third residential projects)...

 

OR

 

a few blocks south of Visitor Center on Lafayette Street...at the old Jumonville warehouse/&parking lot across from Hilton Capitol Center; btwn Hotel Indigo & Blue's Box

[richyb83]

A Symbol of the State's Budget deficit??  Still a giant hole in the ground!  Former site of the Insurance Bldg that was imploded 12 years ago & proposed site of the never built Economic Development Bldg...

WELL...FINALLY!!!  Some promising news on some new construction!!  Need an updated rendering....Price tag for new Legislative Bldg is $30 million...looking at least 5-floors??

This was old Economic Bldg never built

Possibly this?

Also the one-way roads around Arsenal Park nearby will become two-way streets...

Design work begins on new Capitol Complex building

http://theadvocate.com/help/14025516-123/design-work-begins-on-new

Just happened to take pic earlier this week

Edited November 28, 2015 by richyb83

[richyb83]

This is when Downtown BR began the renaissance ... the 3 old ugly state buildings were imploded sometime in early 90's .....Main Street Market & YMCA were nice Street-level  additions  to the parking garages.

A MESSAGE FROM THE DDD

Government consolidation Capitol Park Master Plan - ACT No. 761 As part of the Downtown Development District's 30th Anniversary, we are looking back at some of the projects that propelled downtown to where it is today. In 1990, Act NO. 761 led to the creation of the Capitol Park Master Plan by State Facility Planning and Control, Division of Administration. With public input, this plan was designed by Post Architects to consolidate state agencies into a park-like capitol campus that connected to the core of Downtown Baton Rouge. Architects subsequently designed Art Deco buildings that complemented and did not compete with the Historic State Capitol Building. Building upon the existing Fourth Street axis to the State Capitol, the plan expanded and further delineated the formal theme of the existing grounds. Emphasis was placed on the pedestrian scale; incorporating green plazas into each building site, establishing pleasant corridors between buildings, and integrating Capitol Lake sites and a riverfront park. This emphasis on the pedestrian experience comes to life daily as thousands of state workers visit adjacent downtown restaurants. Another important goal of the planning was to energize the parking garages within the Capitol Park Complex by adding retail on the first floors. Today you will see the YMCA, Main Street Market and a variety of restaurants achieving this goal. To date, the plan has resulted in over 2,000,000 square-feet of new construction and thousands of daily workers. Click to enlarge image

Capitol Park >> DDD 30 yEars >>

 

Edited November 1, 2017 by richyb83

[richyb83]

Wall of State Buildings  along North Street ..... Galvez; Iberville; Bienville & La Salle

[dan326]

Yeah, that wall is quite an impressive sight when you think about it.

[richyb83]

Because it's standing on a small bluff; the  LaSalle State Building @12 floors looks extra taller than the IBM/525 Lafayette that's on the riverfront.