Jack Barlow

1 week ago | csmonitor.com | Jack Barlow

A few months ago a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf was installed in the spare room of my cozy home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Putting up a bookshelf is usually neither here nor there, but this one marked an occasion worth celebrating. It was the first time, in a lifetime of globe-trotting, that all my books have had a home. This is no small feat.

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Jack Barlow

The pressure on local municipalities to make suitable arrangements to get the job done is considerable—if they don't, developers can turn to legal tools, like builder's remedy, which could ultimately allow them to bypass local zoning ordinances. This can be done on the grounds that the municipality is not making its best effort to meet its obligations. "It's a situation where the law is very coercive from a municipality's point of view," he says.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Jack Barlow

A decades-long battle over a development on an untouched New Jersey mountaintop, with sweeping views of the Manhattan skyline, has bubbled to life again, with furious locals saying it’s simply not safe and it is being pushed through under the guise of providing affordable housing. Plans to turn a 120-acre wooded area in West Orange into a 496-unit residential development have been given the green light. Around 100 of the units will be designated as affordable housing.

May 5, 2024 | theadvocate.com | Jack Barlow

What sort of house can you get for $150,000 in Baton Rouge? Ask Lisa Clingan. The Baton Rouge real estate agent helped film an episode of HGTV's popular "House Hunters" show late last year. Her clients for the show came from Los Angeles, though one-half of the couple was originally from Louisiana. "He moved to California, got married, and he and his husband moved back to have a fresh start and live close to his family," Clingan said.

Apr 22, 2024 | nola.com | Jack Barlow

Whether dealing with social media or unusual office spaces, Jared Lamb does things differently. Lamb is the head of school at BASIS Baton Rouge Materra. Soon after arriving from New Orleans in 2022, he heard about a problem: There wasn't enough space at the school for a conference room. "We're a school of over 800 students and we didn’t have shared meeting spaces or conference rooms available," he said. "I volunteered.