Lipsey's, who has called the Baton Rouge Area home for nearly 75 years, has announced groundbreaking for their new corporate headquarters and a new, high-tech distribution center located on Highland Rd in St George, LA! This new facility will encompass nearly 265,000 sf of space and will allow for expanded hiring at the corporate office level as well as integrate advanced logistics and workflow design, expanded storage capacity, and upgraded technology infrastructure in the n

Studyville Enterprises has announced a substantial expansion of their workforce in Baton Rouge, LA! They are an education technology company that develops digital platforms to allow schools across the country to track tutoring performance and to strengthen literacy instruction. Studyville Enterprises was born in Louisiana in 2020 and their corporate headquarters is located on Jefferson Hwy in Baton Rouge. This expansion announcement will not only retain 12 current jobs, BUT

Shintech has just re-affirmed how important the Greater Baton Rouge area is to them by announcing a $3.4 Billion (yes Billion with a B!) expansion to their existing facility in Iberville Parish. Plans call for the company to build a second ethylene unit and a fourth chlor-alkali and vinyl chloride monomer unit. This will be a multi-phased expansion with the initial construction phase to be complete by 2030. This expansion will create 162 new jobs with an average salary at a

Big economic win for St Charles Parish has just been announced and it will support continued growth in the Ascension Parish housing market! Southern Energy Renewables has announced plans to invest $1.4 Billion to develop a green methanol and sustainable aviation fuel facility starting in 2027 with an estimated completion date of 2029. This plant is the first investment in Louisiana by SER and is planned to create 120 direct, high paying permanent jobs and 394 indirect jobs.

The City of Baton Rouge just announced a huge, 20 Year Agreement with American Cruise Lines to bring cruise ship dockings back to downtown Baton Rouge!. It is estimated that this will inject at least $25,000,000 into the Baton Rouge economy throughout the life of this agreement. As an added benefit, American Cruise Lines will be spending around $2,000,000 to refurbish the landing dock that their ships will use to dock downtown. This dock had fallen into disrepair over the y

Ascension Parish has become Louisiana's fastest growing parish through a combination of location & years of growth planning that is coming to fruition! Ascension Parish is home to one of the top ranked public education systems in the entire state which makes it super attractive to families. In addition, the Parish is located between Baton Rouge and New Orleans with easy, I-10 access to each city. The Mississippi River bisects the Parish, allowing for plant and industrial gr

CLM Equipment - a heavy equipment company - has elected to open their 5th Louisiana location in Port Allen, LA! CLM Equipment just closed on an $850,000, 3 acre lot on Commercial Dr with plans to build a 15,000 sf facility for sales and service. Initially they expect to add 15 - 20 new jobs with plans to further expand their job force in the future. Business is good for CLM as they are Louisiana's exclusive distributor of Hitachi excavators and wheel loaders. Welcome to Wes

The Baton Rouge Airport reported a record traffic count of 847,000 passengers in 2025! This is the second consecutive year of record traffic counts with the Airport reporting 844,000 passengers served in 2024. This record passenger count comes on the heels of a parking lot enhancement program that was rolled out earlier in the year and sets the stage for a terminal modernization project that will kick off later in 2026. This airport traffic news further underscores the posit

Big economic news coming to Walker in early 2026 courtesy of The Shaw Group! Shaw has an already existing pipe fabrication and specialty services facility located in Walker that currently employs 165 people. This facility supports industrial projects tied to power generation, oil and gas, and data center development in and around Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. Because of the success of this facility, Shaw will be adding 200 new direct jobs locally while retaining the exist

The Baton Rouge Metropolitan Area showed some very strong job growth adding 2,700 new jobs in November 2025 as compared to November 2024! These new jobs grew our job employment base to around 438,000 jobs which is greater than this time in 2024 and lifts our total number of jobs back up to levels seen in the early fall of 2025. In addition, the unemployment rate for Baton Rouge fell to 3.9%, .2% below November 2024. All in, this is a great jobs report for the Baton Rouge are

Louisiana has become the first state EVER to win back-to-back Platinum Deal of the Year Awards! These awards recognize one economic win for a state per year as measured against all 50 states. In 2024, Louisiana won the award for the Meta AI Data center that is currently under construction in the northern part of the state. Louisiana won the 2025 Platinum Deal award for the $6 Billion Hyundai Steel's new plant that will begin construction in late 2026 on a 1,700 acre tract of

The Ivy subdivision is a new construction subdivision located in the heart of Denham Springs, 70726 and is situated/accessed from Cockerham Rd just east of Hatchell Ln! The Ivy Subdivision is not yet fully built out so there are vacant lots, fully built homes AND homes currently under construction all for sale right now. The vacant lots tend to be priced around $80,000 and the finished homes are priced in/around $500,000. Home sizes are all around 2,000 square feet +/- 200

Some great and surprising economic news just announced for Denham Springs & Livingston Parish - Target is coming to town! Target has just purchased an outparcel at Juban Crossing in a deal that closed in late 2025. No official opening announcement has been made, but I'd expect the new store open in 2027. Juban Crossing is a large retail development located in Denham Springs just north of I-12 and accessed by Juban Road. This development has grown over the years into quite

The Hollows of Dutchtown is a highly sought after subdivision located in Prairieville, 70769! It is located just off of Old Jefferson Hwy and north of LA HWY 621. The Hollows of Dutchtown provides super easy access to I-10, Old Jefferson Hwy and Airline Hwy - allowing for easy access in/around both Ascension and East Baton Rouge Parishes. The subdivision offers many amenities such as several lakes, a community pool and homes with a lakefront view. Hollows of Dutchtown hom

Delaune Estates Subdivision is a new-construction subdivision located in Prairieville - 70769. Delaune Estates is situated at the southwest corner of Duplessis Rd & Old Jefferson Hwy. The location is prime in that it provides easy access to I-10 & Airline Hwy. Level Homes is the builder of this subdivision and they are know for their high quality new construction homes. The homes generally range from 1,700 - 2,800 living square feet and the sales prices from $375,000 - $51

It was a record setting year for the Greater Baton Rouge Area in terms of economic projects with a record $10.6B in capital investment projects announced! These economic projects are projected to create over 2,100 new, direct jobs which equates to over $190 million new payroll dollars that will be circulating through our local economy! Here's a summary graphic of the economic wins for Baton Rouge courtesy of the Greater Baton Rouge Economic Partnership. In addition, there wi

The State of Louisiana has announced a huge, record year of investment and job creation! In 2025, LED has announced over $61 Billion Dollars in new, capital investment projects that are projected to create around 9,300 direct, new jobs. In addition, these new jobs are estimated to average an annual pay of $91,000 which is around $30,000 above the current state average! While these new capital projects are spread around the state, the Greater Baton Rouge Region is poised to r

Hut 8 previously announced the construction of a huge, new AI Data center in St Francisville, West Feliciana Parish LA sitting on around 600 acres of prime land. Hut 8 just announced a $7 Billion Dollar contract with Anthropic as the first tenant in the new AI Data center with work commencing immediately! It is anticipated that once the Anthropic servers are in place and running that their contract will generate around $90,000,000/year in additional taxes for West Feliciana

AtmosClear has announced a new carbon capture project to be located at the Port of Baton Rouge in Port Allen, LA 70767! This $885,000,000 project will build a facility with the capability of converting biomass such as sugarcare byproducts and forestry products into renewable power all the while being able to capture around 700,000 metric tons of CO2 annually. In a further win, Microsoft has signed an agreement with AtmosClear to provide them around 7 Million metric tons of c

Epic Piping has just announced a $25,000,000 expansion and upgrade of their existing facility located in Livingston Parish! This project expands an already existing advanced manufacturing facility located in the city of Livingston in Livingston Parish. It is estimated that this expansion will create 76 direct, new jobs with an average annual salary of $60,000 AND will retain an already existing 370 jobs currently at the facility. There should be another 136 indirect jobs cr