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Part of Esplanade Mall in BR is coming down

Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:46 am
Posted by tigersbh
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2005
10269 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:46 am
The big building next to Clicks that they are never able to lease out is being torn down. My guess is that they will just add more parking spots. Does anybody know more?
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9353 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:50 am to
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Does anybody know more?



Drove by it this morning..One side is already down
Posted by mikelbr
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2008
47507 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:55 am to
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Drove by it this morning..One side is already down

Lol we should have chick fil a breakfast some time. drove by at 640 and saw half a building gone. Can't be more parking, can it ?
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9353 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:57 am to
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we should have chick fil a breakfast some time


I don't go that direction...God help me if I am on that side of college at 640
Posted by CaptainJ47
Gonzales
Member since Nov 2007
7353 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:02 am to
I passed the other day and with all of the traffic right there I don't know how things can't make it.
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
32096 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:35 am to
It's a good, visible location but the size and orientation of the building is odd, and I don't think they have abundant parking.

It's too small for most department stores but too large for most restaurants. The configuration for they entire mall was kind of weird. If it were significantly larger, it probably would have been a fairly successful indoor mall.

Seems like a Dave and Busters would have gone well there, but I doubt there is enough parking for anything like that.

Maybe one day they'll redevelop it into something like the Town Center.
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 8:46 am
Posted by jmarto1
Houma, LA/ Las Vegas, NV
Member since Mar 2008
33968 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:38 am to
They'll probably parcel it out. I don't see how more parking would benefit.
Posted by Chicken
Jackassistan
Member since Aug 2003
22021 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:39 am to
My Esplanade memory: I once got a bad haircut at a salon on the West Bank. Later that day, I tried to correct the bad haircut by going to a place inside the Esplanade. That place made it worse. So, I had two bad haircuts in the same day.
Posted by LaBR4
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
50819 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:42 am to
What all was originally in there?
Posted by ellishughtiger
70118
Member since Jul 2004
21135 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:47 am to
As long as they don't get rid of Firehouse Subs I can careless what goes there.

I once saw Les Miles lose to one of those new digital coke machines there. It was pretty amusing, soda got all over him and he turned around and made a confused Les face.
Posted by windhammontanatigers
windham-stanford, montana
Member since Nov 2009
4993 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:54 am to
Can't remember all of the stores, but it seems to me that Todd Garland & Co. and the women's store, RFD were there at one time and also seems that IH Rubestein's may have been there. Again, been along time since I was there but those stores come to mind.
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
106113 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 8:59 am to
The Aveda school is going in there.
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 9:00 am
Posted by GrammarKnotsi
Member since Feb 2013
9353 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:03 am to
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As long as they don't get rid of Firehouse Subs


Different side

quote:

I can careless


Then do
Posted by LaBR4
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
50819 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:04 am to
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Todd Garland & Co. and the women's store, RFD were there at one time and also seems that IH Rubestein's may have been there. 


Posted by LaBR4
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2005
50819 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:05 am to
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The Aveda school is going in there.


Good combination being next to Hooters
Posted by TheIndulger
Member since Sep 2011
19239 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:08 am to
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My Esplanade memory: I once got a bad haircut at a salon on the West Bank. Later that day, I tried to correct the bad haircut by going to a place inside the Esplanade. That place made it worse. So, I had two bad haircuts in the same day.


Wrong esplanade mall, chicken
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
106113 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:24 am to


One of my residents works there and was talking about it last week.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
75218 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:26 am to
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The Aveda school is going in there.


Link?
Posted by Aspercel
Member since Jan 2009
106113 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:27 am to
No link, just was told by a resident last week.
Posted by Bullfrog
Institutionalized but Unevaluated
Member since Jul 2010
56263 posts
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:28 am to
Used to be a Benetton clothing store in there and the Funny Bone at some point.
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