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Oct 5, 2023 | businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell |Deanna Narveson

Livingston Parish was once a sleepy, mostly rural parish that a little over 70,000 people called home, and everyone had to go into Baton Rouge for health care, restaurants or retail. Today, the parish is bustling with a growing wave of its own amenities: Our Lady of the Lake’s ER marked its 10-year anniversary this year, and both it and North Oaks Health System have medical complexes there.

Oct 4, 2023 | businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell

When John Blount got into the construction business in 1987, Livingston Parish was a sleepy, mostly rural parish that a little over 70,000 people called home. At the time, short of a few local mom and pop grocers and eateries, Baton Rouge was the place to go for everything, whether it be health care, restaurants or retail.

Jul 25, 2023 | businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell

Louisiana’s fastest-growing software firm could have been launched anywhere in the nation. But Mohit “Mo” Vij, president and CEO of 365Labs, always insisted on Baton Rouge. “We are breaking the stereotype that high-tech can only happen in Silicon Valley,” says Vij, whose company has become the go-to software source for law enforcement, collecting a slew of honors along the way.

Jul 24, 2023 | businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell |JR Ball

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Jul 10, 2023 | businessreport.com | Will Sentell - |Will Sentell

The Mall of Louisiana, the jewel of Baton Rouge retail less than a decade ago, now finds itself in need of a reinvention to keep the sprawling complex relevant to shoppers, local real estate experts say. “There is definitely a trend away from the indoor, climate-controlled malls,” says Michael Budden, Benjamin Jones professor of retail marketing at Southeastern Louisiana University. Budden and others predict that about half of the nation’s roughly 1,000 indoor malls will be gone in five years.