Companies/Plant/Refineries that could've been in Louisiana

Bucees

If you believe all those things, you probably believe Disney almost came here

Disneyworld was supposed to be somewhere around Hammond. Delta was gonna build their hub in Monroe.

Apple headquarters was gonna build out in Bawcomville.

The dildo factory was supposed to be in Gheens

Bombardier wanted to build air/sea/rail facility in AP/St James parish many years ago.

International airport, huge container port, rail to all over the country.

I've always found the comparison of Austin and Baton Rouge interesting. In the 50's they were quite similar, but BR has fallen far behind.

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The assassination of President John Kennedy dealt a blow to Baton Rouge. The original NASA Space Center was to be located in New Orleans. LSU would have received major funding as a research center for the NASA project. But after Kennedy’s death, Lyndon Johnson changed the locations to Houston, and saw that millions of dollars of research funds went to the University of Texas. If the Center had stayed in Louisiana, Baton Rouge would have greatly benefited by the federal dollars to be spent on the project.

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Comparing Austin and Baton Rouge

Delta Airlines...Nola junk..

This state trips over it self more than any other:

- Pretty much all of Houston’s petrochemical industry was once in Louisiana, but moved after the state refused to offer incentives for them to rebuild after a hurricane.

- The Disney thing is overblown; however, there was a push to build a Disney backed water park here … but the state refused to build the infrastructure and offer the tax incentives they wanted.

- Delta is from Louisiana, but when they asked the state to build them a larger airport that could become the hub of their airline, the state again refused to do so. Atlanta and Georgia said they’d build them the largest airport in the country and “bye bye Delta.”

- IF we had the above industry then it’s very likely that we could’ve secured the new Boeing plant they built a few years ago.

- Multiple developers/builders worked to build the tallest building in the South in New Orleans (even Trump was interested at one point) but that failed multiple times, most recently when the company pushing for it wanted to build the largest casino outside of Vegas but again the state refused.

- Marersk looked into Louisiana as one of their options for their offshore “port” of their giga-class oil tankers. These tankers were to be so large that no port in the world could handle them and they’d have to be unloaded/loaded from a sea platform that used undersea pipelines to pump their crude to land based facilities. Last I read Texas is likely to get this as well.

- We also could’ve had the first Buc-ee’s outside of Texas.

Partially true, you did have to pay Edwin too but I am not aware he killed any deals, but I do know a ton of oil companies left New Orleans because they wouldn’t let them in good Mardi Gras crews or their daughters debutants etc too.