re: Companies/Plant/Refineries that could've been in Louisiana

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In May 2003, the company agreed to a deal to be headquartered in Baton Rouge, temporarily at the Louisiana Public Broadcasting's studios. Meanwhile, a permanent facility would be constructed at the Bon Carré Business Park

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Can y'all think of any other Companies/Plant/Refineries that could've been in Louisiana but went elsewhere?

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Honestly south La does pretty well with industrial employers considering the handicap of our horrible infrastructure. I feel like we can always do better there. But our real concern is stagnant universities and higher Ed, and the lack of white collar job growth.

North LA is different. They need everything. I think the Monroe area will eventually get something automotive related.

This state trips over it self more than any other:

- Pretty much all of Houston’s petrochemical industry was once in Louisiana, but moved after the state refused to offer incentives for them to rebuild after a hurricane.

- The Disney thing is overblown; however, there was a push to build a Disney backed water park here … but the state refused to build the infrastructure and offer the tax incentives they wanted.

- Delta is from Louisiana, but when they asked the state to build them a larger airport that could become the hub of their airline, the state again refused to do so. Atlanta and Georgia said they’d build them the largest airport in the country and “bye bye Delta.”

- IF we had the above industry then it’s very likely that we could’ve secured the new Boeing plant they built a few years ago.

- Multiple developers/builders worked to build the tallest building in the South in New Orleans (even Trump was interested at one point) but that failed multiple times, most recently when the company pushing for it wanted to build the largest casino outside of Vegas but again the state refused.

- Marersk looked into Louisiana as one of their options for their offshore “port” of their giga-class oil tankers. These tankers were to be so large that no port in the world could handle them and they’d have to be unloaded/loaded from a sea platform that used undersea pipelines to pump their crude to land based facilities. Last I read Texas is likely to get this as well.

- We also could’ve had the first Buc-ee’s outside of Texas.

a four-wheeler/golf cart factory in Gheens

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The dildo factory was supposed to be in Gheens

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That actually got built. Its just a low key operation running seemlessly in the basement of the new capitol building.

Not all is bad. Louisiana is quickly becoming the LNG center of the world. From Cameron Parish to the absolutely massive projects currently going on with more planned in lower Plaquemines parish.

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Delta moved back in the early 40s. They had moved from Georgia and renamed themselves.

Atlanta was on the forefront of aviation, but Monroe made no sense for Delta HQ in 1941.

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You keep saying this but that doesn't help, change, or explain why Delta is not in LA. Was formed here as Delta Crop Duster and grew into an airline that left the state. In 1941 NO ONE was on the "forefront" of aviation yet. Everyone was playing it by ear and learning on the fly so to say that Atlanta had more to offer than LA is just untrue. Atlanta had less of a bankrupt political climate than LA back then which is exactly why Delta is not in LA.

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Companies/Plant/Refineries that could've been in Louisiana
Partially true, you did have to pay Edwin too but I am not aware he killed any deals, but I do know a ton of oil companies left New Orleans because they wouldn’t let them in good Mardi Gras crews or their daughters debutants etc too.

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I'm having a hard time believing your pseudo-narcistic feelings for NOLA are not sarcastic. Are you telling us that you believe the Texaco building on Poydras, which is housed mainly by lawyers,cpas, and other NOT Texaco companies is this way potentially because so and so couldn't get into Rex or Zulu or whatever? That a pretty strong opinion you must have of the Societal Value of the chocolate city. Sorry if you're not being a smartass then that theory is absolutely full retarded.

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Companies/Plant/Refineries that could've been in Louisiana
Hartsfield is named after the Mayor of Atlanta during that time who courted aviation. Them and Eastern were major players through Atlanta after Delta expanded. Delta already had almost everyone in Atlanta because those are the routes that made sense. I don't believe Delta was even flying to New Orleans when they moved to Atlanta.

Atlanta was more centrally located to the new Delta routes and, yes, had a new municipal airport. Shockingly, the poor rural south wasn't a huge draw for commercial aviation.

Also, Delta crop dusting was the rebadge of another crop dusting entity that moved from Georgia. Macon I think.

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I'm not saying you are wrong about this info, nice post btw, but I am saying that in 1941 that industry was so infantile that with any amount of political commitment every one of the Pros for going to Atlanta would have been overcome and been turned into a nonissue. We as a state need to take a hard look at who we are and decide who we want to be because our current state as a state is directly attributed to our political climate and the fact that rather than looking at these industries as "customers" we are trying to attract, we have chosen to view them as tits every little elected official involved can drain. That is the problem. All of our problems as a state that we have not been able to fix directly stem from our political scene and ethical flexibility.

In general corruption has been on par with 3rd world nations. Wife's uncle is retired general legal counsel for Westlake Group. Ascension is one corrupt parish, just saying.

A high school friend was a civil engineer when Trunkline LNG terminal was built south of Lake Chuck in the later 1970;s All of there air compressors and welding machines came up missing over one weekend. They were able to not lose much time as a local rental tool company had what they needed. Every last serial number matched those that were stolen and the rental tool company was owned by the sheriff (Ham Reid)

My wife's father was a lawyer who worked on the Disney deal for New Orleans East (not Hammond) and on their vacation he met them when they arrived at Disneyland in Anaheim. She thought that he greeted everyone.