re: Older Baton Rouge residents. What lead to the decline of NBR?

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I'm not reading all the pages but I will speculate that I-12 and I-10 are what did most of it. I know that 12 was just getting finished around 1972 or so and at the time NBR was just fine. But with I-12 much further south all the new development was pulled down there, leaving NBR to stagnate.

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Not really, the big question is why did NBR proper (the area around Istrouma High School, Plank Road, etc go into decline while an area like Southdowns, Terrace, and around Webb Park which isn't an upper scale area and it is also made up of older wood frame housing thrived and is still hanging on today.