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richyb83 Megalopolis

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Thanks for posting this early morning clip Drew :thumbsup:

Great question! "Major company", 400 jobs!!!! Maybe they will locate in the CBD??? Looking forward to hearing who it will be?! The new leaders at the BR Area Chamber are very innovative and progressive. Something BR has lacked for sooo long!

Good to hear a Children's Museum is in the works too.

And Vitter saying the "loop" for BR is reality??? Wow! More good news!!!

The (another)expansion to the RiverCenter will attract even more conventions to the capital city!

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richyb83 Megalopolis

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This is great news! Finally! Not just for BR, but the entire state! It sucks they have had to turn work down/new researchers bec. there is not enough room. North Carolina would have taken care of this expansion by now. It's projects like this that help the diversity that makes Raleigh and Austin so progressive.

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dinner roll Unincorporated Area

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I'm surprised this wasn't posted already:

Baton Rouge and Memphis in battle over film production company "Our Stories Films."

http://memphis.bizjournals.com/memphis/sto.../09/daily8.html

More our Our Stories:

http://www.rljcompanies.com/newsOurStories.htm

Per their website, they focus on African-American family comedies (an increasingly profitable genre), and plan to produce six to eight films per year. The business end looks to involve Robert L. Johnson (owner of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats and founder of BET) and The Weinstein Company (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinstein_Company).

This would be a huge get for BR. Hopefully the WBR and Celtic studio projects will tilt the balance toward BR. If not, the chamber better be showing these guys the red carpet. If Our Stories is succesful, other production co.'s will follow.

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There's a nice article in the business report today which highlights some of the many New Orleans businesses that have relocated or opened branches in Baton Rouge. Most say that they are very happy here and that the business climate is better here than in New Orleans. They also cite the importance of the two areas working together for the advancement of the entire state, in particular the southeast portion of the state and by doing so the region could become the equivelant of Atlanta, Dallas, Houston. Dickie Brennan who is opening a new restaurant in the new Marriot Renaissance hotel on Bluebonnet says he doesn't think of Baton Rouge as being an "out of town" market. "Baton Rouge is part of New Orleans and New Orleans is part of Baton Rouge," Brennan said.

http://www.businessreport.com/news/2007/ju...nection-retail/

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New Baton Rouge shipping center could total $280 million

Cemus LLC which purchased a large piece of the old Kaiser Aluminum plant by the US 190 Bridge has bought an additional 65 acres today for 14.5 million. They plan to convert the area to a commercial shipping, storage and distribution center....This will be a 90 acre deep-water terminal property.

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/businesstoday/

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Breaking News: Staples announces plans for B.R. center, 400 jobs

Staples, the world's largest office supply company, plans to open a $2 million-plus "virtual contact center" this year that is expected to bring more than 400 jobs to the Baton Rouge area, the company announced today.

The center, which will be housed in an existing building on Highlandia Drive, will serve as a training site for customer service representatives who will work from home and offices for management and support personnel. Staples says they will begin hiring 60 service reps immediately at a starting pay of $9.05 per hour, and plan to hire hundreds more plus about 60 management and support workers over the next four years.

Staples is the first national company landed through the combined recruitment efforts of Mayor Kip Holden

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richyb83 Megalopolis

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Thanks for posting this Dan :thumbsup:

I just saw this and was about to post; So this is what Mayor Holden wa talking about with the 400 new jobs! Good news! Between the Mayor and BRAC's Stephen Moret things are starting to really take off! But no new construction; already an existing building.

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I sure hope i come, but I'm not so ure it will. Memphis previously beat us out for a BET series, because they had a "more affluent black community".

Memphis media is very pessimistic about our chances of landing this film HQ because of "Baton Rouge's liberal tax incentives for the film industry." -_-

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Large Memphis architectural firm, Looney-Ricks-Kiss opening a BR office.

http://www.lrk.com/

"Baton Rouge is a great market for us, and I am excited to have the opportunity to do this," said Mike Sullivan a principal with the firm. The firm currently has offices in Memphis, Dallas, Jacksonville and Boulder, Co.

Entergy interested in expanding River Bend nuclear facility.

Baton Rouge named a top destination by Facilities and Destinations magazine.

http://www.businessreport.com/archives/daily-report/latest/

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Trace Securities moves corporate headquarters to Corporate Blvd.

BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- TraceSecurity, a leading provider of SaaS security compliance solutions, today announced that it will be relocating its corporate headquarters to a new location on Corporate Boulevard in Baton Rouge in order to accommodate continued triple digit sales growth.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories....43423&EDATE=

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Rardy Burg

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Is anyone keeping track of Cane's phenomenal growth? Their website seems to be having difficulty right now, but I do know they're as far east as Augusta, GA, north in Columbus, Ohio, and NW in Lincoln, Nebraska. They seem to be growing like crazy!

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Is anyone keeping track of Cane's phenomenal growth? Their website seems to be having difficulty right now, but I do know they're as far east as Augusta, GA, north in Columbus, Ohio, and NW in Lincoln, Nebraska. They seem to be growing like crazy!

They go all the way west to Las Vegas as well.

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richyb83 Megalopolis

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The video game industry in BR, that sounds really cool!

Nerjyzed Entertainment Inc., a Baton Rouge video game developer, has grown to more than 40 employees, proof that a $950,000 state grant for customized training has been put to good use, according to the Louisiana Economic Development Department.

Nerjyzed, a private, black-owned firm, is the first video game company to participate in the department

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Exxon Mobil plans a $350 million expansion in BR to produce low sulphur diesel.

ExxonMobil apparently plans to add a unit to produce lower-sulfur diesel at its Baton Rouge facility, according to Mayor-President Kip Holden's budget message presented to the Metro Council. The project investment could exceed $350 million. Company spokesman George Pietrogallo would only say, "We don't make public comment on projects until they finish the appropriation process." The project was listed among several construction projects, many in the chemical industry, in Holden's 2008-09 economic forecast that will add more than 14,000 jobs in the Capital Area over the next two years. Holden's message states: "Construction activities will continue to be the primary driver behind Baton Rouge's growth over the next two years. We have counted at least $5 billion in construction projects in the area, by far a record number for the region." --Anna Thibodeaux

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