re: Another manufacturing company exiting Louisiana

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The crazy thing is that everyone knows that companies are leaving because LA will not invest in infrastructure nor education. Those two things are getting worse every day, and there are no plans to reallocate tax revenues to these area.

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La could allocate $20,000,000,000,000.53 to infastructure and education and nothing would change. The problem is not $$$ but our uninformed citizens electing piss poor politicians.

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Company execs in Ft. Wayne knew they needed to consolidate HQ, mfg, & ops all under one roof.

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this makes sense.

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If you're going to bring up economic development deals gone wrong, the XOM facility to Corpus Christi is a better example of LA's lack of investment in infrastructure, workforce training, etc.

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hasn't the state won on some in recent years though?

There is also something else to take into consideration. People willing to join the workforce. The O&G industry has caused our unemployment rate to rise but there will always be a segment of the population that will never work...I would say 3-3.5% in La.

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If you peel back the onion on these, you'll often see the reality of them. Good example of that where Louisiana "won" but thankfully didn't was the Hawker-Beechcraft plant at the BTR Airport. Hawker was bleeding, LA was a lifeline. Ultimately they were "forced" to stay in Kansas; bankruptcy filed just 20 or so months after they decide to remain.

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Hawker would have been awesome for that region if it panned out. A labor-intensive durable goods manufacturing facility just a few minutes away from a couple of really good school districts. It would have really helped bolster the northern part of East Baton Rouge and probably would have helped generate revenue for the airport. May have even helped some of the retail in that immediate area.

IMO they really should try to get another similar manufacturer in that same spot.

If I'm not mistaken, the Beechcraft proposal was for their corporate offices too.

Hawker leaving Wichita would be like Harley Davidson leaving Milwaukee or General Motors leaving Detroit. It was a moon shot for Louisiana. Wichita's metro is smaller than Baton Rouge's by about 200,000 people, but it has been a major airplane manufacturing hub for a long time.

90% of that money wouldn't go to infrastructure and education

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There are zero reasons to be in LA anymore

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A shite load of chemical plant and refinery jobs say hello.
There are still some expansion and a few new builds in the pipeline so to speak.
Of course none of this has anything much to do with any La politicians doing anything good, just the waterways, pipelines, and rail lines in place combined with cheap natural gas to fuel this industry.

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visit Nola for a good time

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Not a great economy by any mean (and Mitch is trying to screw it up as fast as possible), but Nola has more going for it than just a redneck tourist trap as the perception is.

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So you're saying Broome isn't going to signal to new companies to relocate and pour investment in to Baton Rouge?

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Heh?

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Indianapolis is a surprisingly decent town

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i meant rural Indiana...I shouldn't stereotype

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Y'all do it yourselves

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Nailed it.

Louisiana's graft and good ole boy palm greasing culture is part of why it will always be a state with squandered and wasted potential. I love my home state and most of the people from there. But it's a fricked up place that I would NEVER start a business in and had to leave to reach my professional potential. It makes me sad.

Edgar sez,
What kinda fruit said sumptom bad about Lewzianer.