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Business Guide that were passed during the recent legislative session. The guide is an online business resource tool designed to be a one-stop-shop resource center for business owners and entrepreneurs in the Baton Rouge area. Business Guide was launched...
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An industrial instrument company will move from its Industriplex area location in southeast Baton Rouge to six acres near Cortana Mall and increase its employment from 70 to 105, the company announced today. In an afternoon ceremony at its current location...
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The Downtown Development District’s board of commissioners voted unanimously Thursday to support the mayor’s $901 million tax package for infrastructure improvements and Alive, a proposed themed attraction on the Mississippi River. After the meeting,...
Speaking to a friendly luncheon crowd of about 40 engineers, Mayor-President Kip Holden on Monday said he is pushing for an expensive bond referendum for a second consecutive year not out of personal vanity. “It’s not about the legacy of Kip Holden. It’s...
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Va. — Moments after viewing a marble statue of President George Washington in the Virginia State Capitol that Thomas Jefferson built, a Baton Rouge group watched an ebullient Aneesh Chopra dart across a General Assembly meeting room while he addressed...
Tags: Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Richmond
Va. — Richmond, where Pocahontas once lived, Edgar Allan Poe wrote and Arthur Ashe learned to play tennis, on Sunday welcomed 140 Baton Rouge delegates who are in search of making history in their own hometown. Dubbed the 2009 Canvas Workshop by the sponsoring...
Tags: Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Richmond
The political action arm of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber has endorsed all three candidates in the special election for Louisiana Senate District 16. FuturePAC put its seal of approval on Laurinda Calongne, Dan Claitor and Lee Domingue, all Republicans,...
Reflecting economic realities, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber has lowered its goal for securing jobs in the Baton Rouge region by 33 percent from last year. In 2008, the chamber targeted the retention or addition of 1,200 jobs in the nine-parish area, a...
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The Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a Baton Rouge campus of the LSU System, is poised for pre-eminence in the biotech world and can place Louisiana high on the global research, health-care and technology map with more funding, according to a new...
Tags: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Louisiana