Timothy Boone

3 weeks ago | theadvocate.com | Timothy Boone

Cornerstone Chemical Company said it is shutting down one of the units at its Waggaman manufacturing facility, a move that will put 116 employees out of work. In a letter it sent to the Louisiana Workforce Commission on May 5, the company said it will mothball the acrylonitrile unit on July 31, and that 71 hourly plant workers will be laid off by Dec. 31. The layoffs will occur in three batches between July 31 and the end of the year.

3 weeks ago | theadvocate.com | Timothy Boone

Drago’s is set to open a new Baton Rouge restaurant in Perkins Rowe this summer, after it closed its first local location in January. The restaurant will move into a nearly 7,300-square-foot space that had previously been occupied by Kona Grill. Tommy Cvitanovich, Drago’s owner, said the new Baton Rouge location will be “extra cool” because of all of the events that will be held right outside of the restaurant, in the Perkins Rowe Square.

3 weeks ago | nola.com | Timothy Boone

Drago’s is set to open a new Baton Rouge restaurant in Perkins Rowe this summer, after it closed its first local location in January. The restaurant will move into a nearly 7,300-square-foot space that previously had been occupied by Kona Grill. Tommy Cvitanovich, Drago’s owner, said the new location will be “extra cool” because of all of the events that will be held right outside of the restaurant in the Perkins Rowe Town Square.

3 weeks ago | theadvocate.com | Timothy Boone

A business professor at the University of Tennessee has been selected to become the new dean of LSU's business school. Russell Crook is set to take over as dean of the E.J. Ourso College of Business, effective July 28, pending approval by the LSU Board of Supervisors, the university announced Monday. Crook has been head of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business since July 2022.

3 weeks ago | theadvocate.com | Timothy Boone

A Dallas-based real estate investment firm has purchased the Perkins Rowe mixed use development for an undisclosed amount. TGTPC Perkins Rowe Owner LLC bought the center at the intersection of Bluebonnet Boulevard and Perkins Road in a deal that was filed last week with the East Baton Rouge Clerk of Court’s office. The seller was Crawfish LLC of Fort Worth, Texas. Crawfish has the same mailing address as Trademark Property Co., which bought into Perkins Rowe in 2016.