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re: What are examples of companies that almost chose to build in Louisiana but didn't?
Posted on 1/22/22 at 11:55 am to BlueShield
Posted on 1/22/22 at 11:55 am to BlueShield
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Can you think of anything in the past 10 years?
This is a lot more than 10 years ago, but I knew some of the people involved quite well. A chemical company built a large plant in Louisiana. A bunch of companies associated with Edwin Edwards asked to bid on projects (paving the plant parking lot was one in particular). The bids by these connected companies were always high and rejected. The chemical company then ran into gigantic problems with the state with permitting; anything that the state could regulate was used as a weapon to retaliate for not hiring the connected companies. The company had planned to built two more plants of the same design next door. Instead those two plants were built in Oklahoma.
Crappy public schools have done at least as much damage as corruption. The two together have really hurt the economic development of Louisiana.
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Posted on 1/22/22 at 12:49 pm to BlueShield
quote:Never happened, it is an urban legend.
recall Disney World was suppose to be built in Louisiana but our corrupt politicians wanted money and it ended up being built in Orlando.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 12:56 pm to goofball
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Elio Motors - Shreveport
I'm curious why you think corrupt politicians kept Elio out and what it is that you think we missed out on?
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IBM and DXE came
We spent like $100 million on IBM and they hired 300 Indians.
This post was edited on 1/22/22 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 1/22/22 at 8:51 pm to Hangit
Myth, they were already buying land in 1964 and had scouted it out in years prior. McKeithen took office in 1964. 8K acres purchased by Disney (shell companies) in Fall of 1964 with 30K purchased by Disney later that year before the word got out. It was announced in mid to late 65 as the new Disney location. They wanted that area due to roadway set ups.
This post was edited on 1/23/22 at 11:19 am
Posted on 1/22/22 at 9:05 pm to BlueShield
When I worked for Rodney Alexander, ole James Davison was trying to bring Vee Vehicle to the old GM headlamp plant in Monroe.
Posted on 1/22/22 at 10:22 pm to yaboidarrell
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Disney
I’ve always wondered who the actual politicians were who had their hands out. The planning had to have started in the mid-60s so EWE and his tribe were not in office at that time.
It would be an interesting story if the truth would come out.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 1:49 am to RebelAggieDad
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Aldi's
The one in Lafayette is opening within the next few weeks and the second one is being built.
This post was edited on 1/23/22 at 1:50 am
Posted on 1/23/22 at 6:38 am to BlueShield
Whatever that was supposed to be north of Alec, on the west side of I-49, and a water park in Laccasine.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 8:28 am to CitizenK
quote:My cousin works in commercial real estate here in Lafayette and gets told the same thing everytime he sells something in St. Landry or Evangeline parish. They both have a bad reputation in the business/economic development community for their politicians being unintelligent and corrupt. They're well known for pulling over trucks of companies that don't contribute to their campaigns and writing BS tickets.
was trying to sell the old Mississippi River ethanol plant on the south side of now closed Phillips in Belle Chasse. Everyone loved the location and ready to buy to use for other processes until they heard Plaquemines Parish. I doubt any elected official ever from there is anything but dirty as possible
This post was edited on 1/23/22 at 11:44 am
Posted on 1/23/22 at 8:33 am to The Boat
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They had a Trump Tower sign up on a lot in New Orleans for some time after Katrina.
That was ready to go until the economy went to shite
Would have been the tallest building in the state by far.
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The Trump International Hotel and Tower was a proposed residential tower located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was a project of real estate mogul Donald Trump's Trump Organization. Supposedly in the planning stages from summer 2005 on, the project was finally declared dead in July 2011 after the location land was foreclosed on and sold at auction.
If constructed, the Trump Tower would have become the tallest building in the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana, at seventy stories. At a height of 716 feet (218 m) along with a 126-foot (38 m) spire, it would also be the tallest building along the Gulf Coast outside of Houston, as well as the tallest point in the state of Louisiana. (Louisiana's highest peak is Driskill Mountain, at 535 feet.) It was planned to be a multi-use building with the ground floors allocated for retail shopping, the lower floors would have been luxury condo-hotels and the upper floors will be luxury condominiums.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 10:43 am to nicholastiger
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LA misses moret
Truth!
Posted on 1/23/22 at 11:05 am to Spankum
Only one correct answer for this thread: Isdera 
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John DeLorean was involved with a company called The Louisiana Motor Company Inc. Initially he was said to be a consultant involved in nogotiating with Govenor Edwin Edwards and officials from the city of Monroe about building an assembly plant there. By late June of '87 the German publication DIE WELT was saying that John was planning a venture in West Germany to produce the Isdera in Louisiana. None of it ever amounted to anything but the one Isdera built was pretty nice to look at. It was to sell for about $140,000 with an annual production of 75 to 100 cars.
This post was edited on 1/23/22 at 11:06 am
Posted on 1/23/22 at 11:10 am to BlueShield
If I remember correctly NASCAR was going to build a track out in Nola East around Jazzland area.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 6:15 pm to goofball
I’ll take Buccee’s all day long. As usual Louisiana missing out on a great opportunity because of tax laws!!!
Posted on 1/23/22 at 6:48 pm to goofball
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Elio Motors - Shreveport
How about that V car that was supposed to be in the old Guide plant building in Monroe. I figure most smelled that bullshite miles away.
This post was edited on 1/23/22 at 6:50 pm
Posted on 1/23/22 at 7:17 pm to Tempratt
I was just about to post about that. That plant just rusted there outside of Monroe dormant for years. If I recall our local leaders fricked around too much and scared them away
This post was edited on 1/23/22 at 7:18 pm
Posted on 1/23/22 at 11:05 pm to Solo Cam
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you ever been inside a Bucees as opposed to a shell off of I-10 between Lafayette and New Orleans?
If you want nice things you have to make some concessions.
But I'm sure that Texas, Florida, Georgia snd Alabamas leaders we're wrong snd Louisiana was right. For the first time
Ever
Thank you.
1 of the biggest complaints Ive heard from people who don't live in, but travel through, Louisiana is that our gas station bathrooms are the worst in the nation. My experience is that they are accurate.
If you dont understand why that is important, then you dont understand human beings or economies (which are the same thing).
I drive through Alabama regularly. I time my gas/food stops based on where Buccee's and Love's are.
Based on the amt of other people there, Im with the majority.
Louisiana is shite in this regard.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 11:31 pm to caill430
Back in the day I want to say in the 90s Nascar had proposed to put a speedway track in Lacassine because of its location between Houston and Nola. It was actually going to be close to where the Waterpark is today.
Posted on 1/23/22 at 11:39 pm to BlueShield
LA has lost exponentially more business opportunities than those awarded.
Hmmm…wonder why.
Hmmm…wonder why.
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