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3 Steps To Get Grocery Stores In North Baton Rouge
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:11 pm
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Purchase Cortana Mall:
2. Build A Tax Incentive Package:
3. Attract An Out Of State Grocer
Purchase Cortana Mall:
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Currently Cortana Mall is for sale for $4 million. This is the cheapest I believe the building will ever list for sale. The city should purchase the facility, much like it purchased the old Woman’s Hospital building on Airline Hwy. near Florida Blvd. The city can use this building as an asset to leverage with a grocery chain. If we are to create new jobs and attract a grocer, it would help to give them a facility to open as a distribution center. We could require that a certain number of jobs are created, that so many people from certain zip codes are hired — this is an incentive.
2. Build A Tax Incentive Package:
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The mayor’s office should use the tools at it’s disposal in tax incentives. The sale the mayor has to make is, we need to build stores in north Baton Rouge. The city should be prepared to offer a TIF (Tax Incremental Financing) option for every store built north of Florida Blvd. excluding Baker, Zachary, and Central which each of these cities have their own council to attract businesses to their areas
3. Attract An Out Of State Grocer
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The reason you go after an out of state business is, they aren’t tainted by the bias of local media that all of north Baton Rouge is crime infested. It simply is not true, and outsiders will see north Baton Rouge as a place of opportunity where locals have decided to write it off. This was our approach with the North Baton Rouge Blue Ribbon Commission to attracting a vendor for an emergency room in north Baton Rouge. We reached out to a Dallas based company about the opportunity because Our Lady of the Lake, Oschner, and Baton Rouge General all said north Baton Rouge didn’t need emergency care. Our vendor prepared a proposal, and we drove the conversation.
This post was edited on 11/12/17 at 4:12 pm
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Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:13 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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This is a lot better than continuing to let Family Dollar and Dollar General Stores open up in our communities where no fresh fruit or veggies are sold to the population that need access to quality food the most.
Will they accept WIC is all that I am concerned about
This post was edited on 11/12/17 at 4:14 pm
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:14 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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The reason you go after an out of state business is, they aren’t tainted by the bias of local media that all of north Baton Rouge is crime infested. It simply is not true, and outsiders will see north Baton Rouge as a place of opportunity where locals have decided to write it off.
Because the out-of-state guys won't do any independent research. Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:16 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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We reached out to a Dallas based company about the opportunity because Our Lady of the Lake, Oschner, and Baton Rouge General all said north Baton Rouge didn’t need emergency care. Our vendor prepared a proposal, and we drove the conversation.
Translation: we reached out to a fraudulent, Dallas-based company and promoted them because they were paying us.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:16 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
This had to have been written by Gravy. He has ZERO idea of how businesses work. Buy Cortana as a distribution center? Does he have ANY idea of what the retrofits would cost? It would be multiple times cheaper to purpose build a new facility. Refrigeration, freezers, aisles and doors for forklifts, etc. Such an idiot.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:20 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Step 1: Allow Kim Jung Un to use NBR as a new nuke test site.
Step 2: Remove remaining NBR residents that survive lil Kim.
Step 3: Wait 10,000 for the radiation to cool down.
Step 2: Remove remaining NBR residents that survive lil Kim.
Step 3: Wait 10,000 for the radiation to cool down.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:21 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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they aren’t tainted by the bias of local media that all of north Baton Rouge is crime infested. It simply is not true
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:22 pm to jbgleason
They already have grocery stores in that area, Hi-Nabor has two within a couple miles of Cortana. Not sure how a distribution warehouse is going to solve grocery store issue anyway.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:22 pm to Oswald
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The reason you go after an out of state business is, they aren’t tainted by the bias of local media that all of north Baton Rouge is crime infested. It simply is not true, and outsiders will see north Baton Rouge as a place of opportunity where locals have decided to write it off.
What it is really saying is "go after out of state people who have no idea how bad NBR really is".
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:23 pm to jbgleason
Gravy say keep the beef in Foot Locker, the pork in athletes foot, the chicken in Gold-N-Things, Vegetables and fruit in Sears...... he got dis.
This post was edited on 11/12/17 at 4:27 pm
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:24 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Wal mart Cortana says ??
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:26 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
There are locations that can be used for supermarkets in NBR. Problem is they have been used by many different companies who all decided to cut bait and leave.
For example, there is a location at Plank and Harding which was most recently a Piggly Wiggly.
It has previously been a Superfresh, a National, and probably several other brands.
Problem is that the grocery business is a thin margin business and there’s always some horseshite that causes these companies to say “frick it, we’re out.”
That National in particular closed down after a worker strike. The idiots thought they won when National shut down, not that they lost their jobs.
For example, there is a location at Plank and Harding which was most recently a Piggly Wiggly.
It has previously been a Superfresh, a National, and probably several other brands.
Problem is that the grocery business is a thin margin business and there’s always some horseshite that causes these companies to say “frick it, we’re out.”
That National in particular closed down after a worker strike. The idiots thought they won when National shut down, not that they lost their jobs.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:26 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
I drove by the Save-A-Lot at the corner of Evangeline St and N Foster Dr the other day. It looked like a place you'd see on the news in the Gaza Strip.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:27 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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We could require that a certain number of jobs are created, that so many people from certain zip codes are hired — this is an incentive.
No its not. Youre basically strong-arming a company into doing what you want.
Is Gravy's home and business still in South BR?
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:27 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
Just when you think Gravy can’t get any dumber.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:29 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
1. SWB and any NBR politician wants kick backs.
Why would a company pay kick backs to invest in a high risk area?
Then to run ac/ heat, maintenance, retrofit the stores space in the mall to make them useable space is a lot of money.
Getting trucks through Airline hwy and Florida Blvd would be a huge disadvantage to having a distribution center in NBR.
Hiring employees in NBR that show up 1/2 the time sober, do not have criminal records, and would want to work would be hard.
2. The company that paid kick backs to try to get an ER in NBR paid those kickbacks for a reason.
They can make good money on billing out services through Medicare and other govt programs.
Why do you think DR Plants still has a chiropractic business in NBR?
Why would a company pay kick backs to invest in a high risk area?
Then to run ac/ heat, maintenance, retrofit the stores space in the mall to make them useable space is a lot of money.
Getting trucks through Airline hwy and Florida Blvd would be a huge disadvantage to having a distribution center in NBR.
Hiring employees in NBR that show up 1/2 the time sober, do not have criminal records, and would want to work would be hard.
2. The company that paid kick backs to try to get an ER in NBR paid those kickbacks for a reason.
They can make good money on billing out services through Medicare and other govt programs.
Why do you think DR Plants still has a chiropractic business in NBR?
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:33 pm to The Boat
They continue to blame the lack of businesses on racism. Here’s some news, businesses do see color. The color is GREEN. You think a national business operation gives two fricks about the color of their customers? They aren’t building in NBR because of ECONOMIC and not RACIAL reasons. Quit killing, robbing and stealing. Then provide a base of responsible labor and customers who can purchase goods. Then businesses will fall all over each other to open. It’s not graduate level economics.
You can argue if it is governments responsibility to incentivize the businesses but that is chicken and egg arguments. Because the businesses aren’t going to stay regardless of incentives if they aren’t showing a profit.
You can argue if it is governments responsibility to incentivize the businesses but that is chicken and egg arguments. Because the businesses aren’t going to stay regardless of incentives if they aren’t showing a profit.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:36 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
It's always entertaining to watch someone with absolutely no knowledge of business or economics speak about business and economics as if they are an authority on the matter.
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:38 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
4. Build a wall
Posted on 11/12/17 at 4:40 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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by the bias of local media that all of north Baton Rouge is crime infested
I mean come on
There's a reason that most (if not all) nice businesses aren't locating in NBR and it isn't bias.
I work around the Cortana area (which likely doesn't reflect the stereotypical NBR environment as heavily), and there's no way I'd ever open a business there over other parts of Baton Rouge.
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