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Hang onto your hats BR! Now they want to build Affordable Housing downtown.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:06 pm
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Plans are in the works to turn the former State National Life Insurance building and an adjoining property into a 60-unit workforce housing development, with construction beginning in the fall.
Jarrett Cohen told the Downtown Development District Commission Tuesday the goal is to build affordable housing in downtown Baton Rouge. While several apartment complexes have opened in the central business district in recent years, including the Residences at Rivermark, the Heron and 525 Lafayette, all of those properties are upscale.
And guess who is funding it? That's right. Bust out your wallet taxpayers.
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The plan is to redevelop the State National Life building at 263 Third St. and a connecting building at 224 Florida. Cohen said he has been approved for $19.5 million in multifamily housing revenue bonds, the Baton Rouge Mayor’s Office of Community Development has awarded him up to $2 million and he’s trying to line up $7 million to $10 million in historic tax credits.
Definitely don't want more nice stuff. Build us some ghetto and put it next to the nice stuff.
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Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:08 pm to jbgleason
Downtown BR sucks anyway.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:10 pm to jbgleason
This will surely make Downtown safer, and definitely not kill the already crippled downtown scene on 3rd street
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:14 pm to jbgleason
Bad idea.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:15 pm to jbgleason
Downtown Seafood gonna be hopping
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:15 pm to jbgleason
Elon gonna take their funding I hope
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:16 pm to 0x15E
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Downtown BR sucks anyway.
well….this will pretty much make that permanent.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:18 pm to jbgleason
Good. Keep it out of the suburbs. Anyone who has had their property values wrecked by South Harrell’s Ferry will get the reference.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:21 pm to jbgleason
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Residences at Rivermark, the Heron and 525 Lafayette, all of those properties are upscale
The Heron doesn't belong with these other two.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:22 pm to NPComb
Now all the homeless sleeping next to the River Center have a place to go.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:22 pm to jbgleason
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Affordable housing
= subsidized
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workforce housing development
Yes, if by ‘workforce’ you mean ‘on welfare’.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:27 pm to jbgleason
Moving on up.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:38 pm to jbgleason
Section 8 on the way!
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:39 pm to jbgleason
There are about a dozen parking places at this building. The lots close to here are extremely expensive. Where will the residents park all those Altimas, affordably? 
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:45 pm to jbgleason
Some real short-sighted racists in this thread.
Hating that homeless people exist, hating measures taken to help lessen homelessness.
Hating that homeless people exist, hating measures taken to help lessen homelessness.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:46 pm to jbgleason
Big deal. Downtown BR is a shithole anyway. It can always be worse, but its not like its some thriving, robust place this will ruin. Like putting house trailers as camps on Grand Isle. Not preferable, but hardly devastating.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:46 pm to Harry Caray
Oh no - you’re a white male liberal?
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:47 pm to jbgleason
I remember a decade ago when I lived out there how much fun third Street had become. Nice to see BR fricking up a good thing.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:48 pm to jbgleason
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“There’s a high demand and desire for affordable housing downtown,” Cohen said. He noted that police officers, teachers, firefighters, hospitality workers and government employees all make less than $50,000 a year starting out.
I just don’t see these groups being the actual residents, and I am sure it will not be limited to them.
They have to know who is mainly going to be living there in a year or 2, and to push others as who this is for is completely disingenuous.
Posted on 2/12/25 at 12:49 pm to Harry Caray
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Some real short-sighted racists in this thread.
Hating that homeless people exist, hating measures taken to help lessen homelessness.
Your argument is people who hate that homeless exist and hate measures to lessen homelessness are racist. This infers you believe that homeless = minorities. That seems kind of racist, no?
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