Started By
Message
locked post

Jani-King Gulf Coast Plans Corporate Headquarters in Ponchatoula, Louisiana

Posted on 5/6/19 at 4:48 pm
Posted by MrLSU
Yellowstone, Val d'isere
Member since Jan 2004
29008 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 4:48 pm
Jani-King Gulf Coast broke ground on a new 18,000-square-foot corporate headquarters facility in Ponchatoula, Louisiana.

The company will make a $4.5 million capital investment to develop the new headquarters location, which will replace the company’s current location in downtown Ponchatoula. The new corporate headquarters will be located northeast of the Interstate 55 interchange with Louisiana Highway 22.

Since launching in 1969, Jani-King has grown into the world’s largest commercial cleaning franchise company, operating 130 support offices. Jani-King Gulf Coast is the largest master franchise in the Jani-King system, with more than 500 Jani-King franchises stretching from Texas to Georgia.

Area Development Magazine
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
49218 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 4:49 pm to
Not if JBE has anything to say about it.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
58515 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 4:51 pm to
Why would we want a janitor company nobody wants to be a janitor

Why don’t they open a theatre arts company to give jobs to people with college degrees
Posted by TH03
Mogadishu
Member since Dec 2008
171955 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 4:52 pm to
Well Amazon passed us up, better get the shitter cleaners.
Posted by Notro
Alison Brie's Boobs
Member since Sep 2011
7921 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 4:56 pm to
quote:

Not if JBE has anything to say about it.

He was there for the ground breaking...Had to pick up that check... I mean campaign donation.

Posted by djangochained
Gardere
Member since Jul 2013
19122 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 4:59 pm to
who is us?
Posted by Pechon
unperson
Member since Oct 2011
7748 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:03 pm to
quote:

He was there for the ground breaking...Had to pick up that check... I mean campaign donation.


This article is a little late, eh? They started construction a month ago. It's going to be located on the frontage road next to the I-55 exit. I'm just curious as to why they put it there. Oh wait, I forgot where I live for a moment.

Traffic is going to further suck. It's bad enough Business 51 is a wall of cars between 3-6 PM and Pine street is a pain during those hours as well. Now the frontage road is going to be awful. Progress I guess.
Posted by geaux88
Northshore, LA
Member since Oct 2003
16355 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:07 pm to
quote:

Why don’t they open a theatre arts company to give jobs to people with college degrees



Because non-marketable liberal arts college degrees have nothing to offer other than a job at Jani-King or Starbucks.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
58515 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:09 pm to
quote:

Because non-marketable liberal arts college degrees have nothing to offer other than a job at Jani-King or Starbucks.

That really shows you the failure of capitalism that no entrepreneurs will open a liberal arts company
Posted by geaux88
Northshore, LA
Member since Oct 2003
16355 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:12 pm to
quote:

That really shows you the failure of capitalism that no entrepreneurs will open a liberal arts company


Wrong. It shows the SUCCESS of capitalism that they DO offer jobs to liberal arts majors....they are at Jani-King and Starbucks!!
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
109735 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:14 pm to
quote:

his article is a little late, eh? They started construction a month ago. It's going to be located on the frontage road next to the I-55 exit. I'm just curious as to why they put it there. Oh wait, I forgot where I live for a moment.

Traffic is going to further suck. It's bad enough Business 51 is a wall of cars between 3-6 PM and Pine street is a pain during those hours as well. Now the frontage road is going to be awful. Progress I guess.



This is silly. How many people are going to be employed in an 18,000 square foot facility, such that it would have a significant affect on existing traffic?

Anyway, it looks like they are just relocating an office from downtown Pontchatoula according to the article. This doesn't seem like a new influx type development.
Posted by geaux88
Northshore, LA
Member since Oct 2003
16355 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:21 pm to
quote:

How many people are going to be employed in an 18,000 square foot facility,


Absolute truth and a great point Y.A.; As an example, the footprint for one of those larger Dollar General "Market" stores is only about 20-22,000 square feet.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
58515 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:38 pm to
quote:

Wrong. It shows the SUCCESS of capitalism that they DO offer jobs to liberal arts majors....they are at Jani-King and Starbucks!!

Maybe if the government mandated that certain entrepreneurs had to open up liberal arts companies like say a graphics design or Classical Greek literature company. That would make the free market more fair
Posted by Fat and Happy
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2013
19521 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:55 pm to
Nice. That will be huge for that area.

The real estate for probably much cheaper there so they jumped on it
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33061 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:59 pm to
quote:

18,000-square-foot corporate headquarters facility


That's almost the size of the lobby of my company's building.
Posted by La Place Mike
West Florida Republic
Member since Jan 2004
30917 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 5:59 pm to
So a company headquarters that is already located in Ponchy is moving to a new location in Ponchy. Well, I guess, that is good news.
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
33061 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 6:00 pm to
quote:

This doesn't seem like a new influx type development.



It's a relocation to Ponchatoula from Ponchatoula.
Posted by dewster
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
26432 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 6:01 pm to
quote:

Jani-King Gulf Coast broke ground on a new 18,000-square-foot corporate headquarters facility in Ponchatoula, Louisiana.

The company will make a $4.5 million capital investment to develop the new headquarters location, which will replace the company’s current location in downtown Ponchatoula. The new corporate headquarters will be located northeast of the Interstate 55 interchange with Louisiana Highway 22.

Since launching in 1969, Jani-King has grown into the world’s largest commercial cleaning franchise company, operating 130 support offices. Jani-King Gulf Coast is the largest master franchise in the Jani-King system, with more than 500 Jani-King franchises stretching from Texas to Georgia.

Area Development Magazine


They are clearly running out of economic development news to write about.
Posted by Tunasntigers92
The Boot
Member since Sep 2014
27906 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 6:02 pm to
I wonder why they picked ponchatoula
Posted by Pechon
unperson
Member since Oct 2011
7748 posts
Posted on 5/6/19 at 6:02 pm to
quote:

This is silly. How many people are going to be employed in an 18,000 square foot facility, such that it would have a significant affect on existing traffic?


I drive through that often. It's already a clusterfrick now.

The red circle is where the new facility is being built



It's already a pain in the arse with people getting on and off the interstate as well as people trying to get across LA 22 from the SE service road to the I-55 frontage road.

edit: corrected the map, was a bit off on the location
This post was edited on 5/6/19 at 6:06 pm
first pageprev pagePage 1 of 2Next pagelast page

Back to top
logoFollow TigerDroppings for LSU Football News
Follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram to get the latest updates on LSU Football and Recruiting.

FacebookXInstagram