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The department store building that is coming down at Broadmoor was occupied by I.H. Rubenstein's--a fairly swanky, locally-owned department store--during the 60's and 70's. The Florida Boulevard Rubenstein's was the first store in the area to install anti-shoplifting devices, supposedly. The devices did not go over well at all...mainly because of the number of wealthy, high-profile people who were caught in the act of shoplifting following the installation. 

 

I can only imagine the shocked and dumbfounded look on some of these people's faces...having alarms go off just as they thought they were home-free. 

 

Just a semi-historic tidbit about an otherwise unremarkable building. 

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Nordstrom Rack coming to Mall of Louisiana in 2015, more new stores to be announced soon

Baton Rouge will be home to the state's first Nordstrom Rack store come next fall. The discount store announced today it be will moving into the Mall of Louisiana outparcel that is also home to Dick's Sporting Goods, DSW and Lane Bryant. Nordstrom Rack, the off-price retail division of Nordstrom Inc., is scheduled to open a 30,000-square-foot space in September 2015 if construction moves according to schedule, says Mall of Louisiana General Manager Tony Stephens. Nordstrom plans to renovate the space currently occupied by American Factory Direct Furniture. Nordstrom operates 284 stores in 37 states, including 162 Nordstrom Racks, but this will be the company's first location in Louisiana. Naomi Tobis, vice president of communications with Nordstrom Inc., says the company was attracted to the Baton Rouge location because it's already successful. "It already has great retail options," Tobis says. "It's anchored with stores and restaurants. We look for locations that are convenient for our customers." The Mall of Louisiana announced in April that a Red Robin, which is currently under construction, and a Microsoft Specialty Store, would also join its lineup. Stephens says a Grimaldi's Pizzeria is also under construction, and that a number of new stores will be announced in the next 30 days as the final details on lease negotiations are worked out

 

 

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Nordstrom Rack coming to Mall of Louisiana in 2015, more new stores to be announced soon

Baton Rouge will be home to the state's first Nordstrom Rack store come next fall. The discount store announced today it be will moving into the Mall of Louisiana outparcel that is also home to Dick's Sporting Goods, DSW and Lane Bryant. Nordstrom Rack, the off-price retail division of Nordstrom Inc., is scheduled to open a 30,000-square-foot space in September 2015 if construction moves according to schedule, says Mall of Louisiana General Manager Tony Stephens. Nordstrom plans to renovate the space currently occupied by American Factory Direct Furniture. Nordstrom operates 284 stores in 37 states, including 162 Nordstrom Racks, but this will be the company's first location in Louisiana. Naomi Tobis, vice president of communications with Nordstrom Inc., says the company was attracted to the Baton Rouge location because it's already successful. "It already has great retail options," Tobis says. "It's anchored with stores and restaurants. We look for locations that are convenient for our customers." The Mall of Louisiana announced in April that a Red Robin, which is currently under construction, and a Microsoft Specialty Store, would also join its lineup. Stephens says a Grimaldi's Pizzeria is also under construction, and that a number of new stores will be announced in the next 30 days as the final details on lease negotiations are worked out

 

 

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Very exciting for the area! 

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^Yeah...lol. Speaking of which, has anybody, seen the Drusilla shopping center. I know you can only do so much with a strip mall and that in the end it will still be a strip mall, but I'm not too impressed with the renovation. I liked it better with the steeples.

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Yeah that is a good point.

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^Yeah...lol. Speaking of which, has anybody, seen the Drusilla shopping center. I know you can only do so much with a strip mall and that in the end it will still be a strip mall, but I'm not too impressed with the renovation. I liked it better with the steeples.

They are basically making an older looking crapty strip mall look like a newer crapty strip mall.

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LeBlanc’s Frais Marche opens in Drusilla Village Shopping Center

 

March 31, 2015

The LeBlanc family celebrated the opening this morning of its first supermarket in Baton Rouge—and its ninth in Louisiana—with a ribbon cutting at the Frais Marche in Drusilla Village Shopping Center. The family spent more than $3 million renovating and expanding the 30,000-square-foot space, previously occupied by Hi Nabor Supermarket, while developer and landlord Donnie Jarreau spent another $3 million upgrading and re-tenanting the rest of the nearly 60-year-old shopping center.

 

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Breaux says the Drusilla Lane/Jefferson Highway area is particularly well suited for a supermarket. “I feel very good about this location,” he says. “Our previous retailer who operated here did very, very well here. There’s a lot of unfilled demand.”

 

Shopping center owner Donnie Jarreau, who purchased the center for $10 million last year, says renovations are nearly complete and the center is 90% leased. Letters of intent have been signed with two new tenants, including a restaurant and retailer.

 

 

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"Circle K buys land to develop fourth prototype store in market

 

Circle K is moving forward with plans for another new prototype store, its fourth in the market. In a deal that closed Monday, the convenience store chain acquired a five-acre parcel at the corner of Airline Highway and Highland Road for $420,000 from Giovanni Mucciacciaro Enterprises.

The property is adjacent to an existing Circle K store that the company will demolish to make way for a new, larger prototype location, according to real estate broker Mark Hebert of Kurz & Hebert Commercial Real Estate, who represented both parties in the transaction.

“They just bought additional square footage because they needed a larger site for their new prototype store,” Hebert says.

Circle K did the same thing on Government Street at South Foster Drive, where it is building a new prototype store. Other prototype stores are located on Highland Road and Starring Lane, and in Plaquemine on La. 1.

Circle K’s new prototype stores are larger than the traditional convenience stores, with more gasoline pumps and fresh food items."

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Alvarez Construction to build new offices at Jamestown

Stephanie Riegel
July 17, 2015
 

Alvarez Construction is developing a new office complex on one of two remaining commercial tracts in Jamestown, a 108-acre planned unit development located on Perkins Road between Siegen and Pecue lanes. The four-building complex will be developed on a two-acre tract on the Pecue Extension, adjacent to the east entrance of Jamestown and across from the Entergy building.

The buildings will range from 8,000 to 12,000 square feet in size. Alvarez Construction will relocate its offices to one of the four buildings. Letters of intent have been signed for the other three, though leases have not been finalized.

“We always wanted Jamestown to be the home of the Alvarez Construction offices,” says Alvarez vice president Sebastian Alvarez. “We just never knew what tract it would be. This is the one we finally decided to call home.”

Construction on the office buildings should begin within the next three months, and Alvarez hopes it will be complete by next fall. Since March, Alvarez Construction has been operating out of temporary offices on YMCA Plaza, where it relocated after selling its office building at 12036 Coursey Blvd. to the Farm Bureau.

The Alvarez family began developing Jamestown in the mid-2000s. Today its three residential phases—The Lakes at Jamestown, the Villas at Jamestown and Jamestown Square—are completely built out. One two-acre commercial tract remains undeveloped.

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I was confused but according to goole, Walmart Express seemed to have been a drugstore sized concept that they absorbed into Neighborhood brand. So I since they probably trademarked the name their just recycling it for the gas station.

Here's a description of one they've already built.

http://www.retailingtoday.com/article/walmart-testing-convenience-concept

Walmart planning to build new Express convenience concept store on Airline


Walmart is planning to develop a Walmart Express convenience store and gas station at the intersection of Airline and Old Hammond highways, on property at 9745 Airline Hwy. that will connect to the company’s 40,000-square-foot Neighborhood Walmart supermarket at 9830 Old Hammond Hwy.


The development is significant for a couple of reasons. Walmart Express is a relatively new concept for the retail giant, and this will be just the company’s second in the local market. Additionally, the convenience store and gas station will give the Neighborhood Walmart coveted access to Airline Highway.

The Walmart Express, which will include an 1,800-square-foot convenience store and eight fuel pumps, will be developed on two adjacent parcels of Airline Highway property. One is currently leased to a used car dealership; the other is the former site of a Mrs. Winner’s Chicken and Biscuits restaurant. Walmart has signed a 20-year, ground lease for the property with Giovanni Mucciacciaro Enterprises. Terms of the lease are $84,000 a year for the first 20 years, with increases every five years thereafter.

Mark Hebert of Kurz & Hebert Commercial Real Estate, who represents Giovanni Mucciacciaro Enterprises, says the deal is a good one for Walmart because of the location and the access it will give the company.

“They have signage and full access and entryway to their Neighborhood Walmart grocery store,” he says.

Walmart has applied for permits with the city-parish Department of Public Works. Before construction can begin, the existing structures on the property will have to be demolished.

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Unfortunately, the Macy's at Cortana is shutting down. Even though its just an old, worn-out mall its still kind of sad to think of how it used to be when it was so full of people before the Mall of Louisiana. Of course, it's funny because now even they are feeling the effects of competition with the internet. Last time I went to the Mall of LA they had some empty storefronts. I heard a rumor they're going to turn Cortana into an outlet mall. Hopefully that's true, it'd be nice if they could turn it into something like the renovated riverside mall in New Orleans.

And on an additional note, I hope they take that money and invest it in the Macy's at the Mall of LA because compared to the one even in Kenner, ours is not good.

Macy’s closing Cortana Mall store

The Macy’s store in Cortana Mall is one of 40 locations the department store chain will close over the next two to three months.

 

A clearance sale at the 243,000-square-foot store will begin on Monday and will run for eight to 12 weeks. The store has 108 employees.

Macy’s announced in September it would close 40 locations and released the list of stores that will shut down on Wednesday. The Cortana store is the only Macy’s in Louisiana to close.

http://theadvocate.com/news/14495150-172/macys-closing-cortana-mall-store

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News roundup: Cortana owner says Macy’s sale provides ‘opportunity to re-evaluate its plans for the shopping mall’                                                         Thinking it over: The owner of Cortana Mall says in a prepared statement issued to Daily Report that the announced closure of Macy’s will give the Las Vegas-based company “an opportunity to re-evaluate its plans for the shopping mall.” Moonbeam Capitals Equities adds it’s “unfortunate that Macy’s decided to close their location at Cortana Mall and create a void in the market.” Macy’s announced late Wednesday that the Cortana location will be among 40 stores closed nationwide over the next two months. Local experts told Daily Report this morning that the closure of the Macy’s store—which will leave the 1.4 million-square-foot mall with two anchor tenant vacancies—doesn’t necessarily mean the end of Cortana Mall. However, they say its future as a retail center is in doubt and the property may eventually be used for more non-retail businesses. https://www.businessreport.com/article/news-roundup-cortana-owner-says-macys-sale-provides-opportunity-re-evaluate-plans-shopping-mall-holden-says-city-parish-monitoring-mississippi-rive

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I meant to post this a while ago. I read this in the Business Report. I know they're adding some new tenants so they might just be filing a plan to re-build out spaces. I know y'all are sick of me saying this but hopefully they put a department store at Towne Center. That way BR can still have 2 "good" "malls".
 
The property manager for Towne Center filed a planned unit development concept plan for the retail center. Attempts to reach the company for information on the project were unsuccessful by this morning’s deadline.
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New flagship Rotolo’s Pizzeria to anchor retail center at Burbank and Ben Hur

  A new flagship Rotolo’s Pizzeria will anchor a 16,000-square-foot retail development Mitch Rotolo is planning on newly purchased land at the corner of Burbank Drive and Ben Hur Road.

Rotolo’s already has a location at 4343 Nicholson Drive. Rotolo says that restaurant is about 20 years old, so everything there will be moved to the new flagship location and the Nicholson Drive space will be marketed for lease for a new food service business.

As for the rest of the development, Rotolo says interest is high, even though the property has not been formally marketed. The restaurateur hopes to attract a clothing boutique, hair salon or similar businesses to the development. He says the hope is to have about six total businesses, depending on how much space each one needs.

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Here's a snippet of this article which says another Hobby Lobby will be opened. I wonder if they are going to move one or open a second.

"Baton Rouge area retail vacancies rise but market still solid, expert says

For example, Rooms To Go is leaving its current 55,000-square-foot location on Siegen Lane and moving into a 40,000-square-foot building down the street on 3.13 acres.

“They’ve got better access. They’ve got better visibility. People are going to drive around to the back of the building,” he said. “This is kind of the wave of the new retail.”

Hobby Lobby has signed a lease for the the current Rooms To Go building, Walker says"

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