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re: Could the area between Downtown and LSU ever turn decent?
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:17 am to cajuntiger1010
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:17 am to cajuntiger1010
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With the area near Tigerland going to complete shite it would seem like Nicholson/River Road along the river going north to downtown could try to improve itself. Having an isolated downtown from campus and the rest of the city doesn’t help either area at all.
Mayor Broom refused about $500 million in federal funds to build a transit line along Nicholson because it went to LSU and not north Baton Rouge.
Then the owners of the land next to Magnolia Mound ended up never recovering from the recession and it's all owned by their bank.
But....LSU is growing in size like crazy and the Water Campus is slowly coming together. It's just the stuff in between that still needs work.
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Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:24 am to cajuntiger1010
Yes but it'll take a combination of different factors/investment from various parties. CPRT/BRAF recently buying 22 blighted properties alongside Nicholson is a good start.
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Commercial Properties Realty Trust has purchased 22 tracts in the Nicholson Drive corridor for $3.02 million.
Tina Rance, CPRT’s vice president of marketing and hospitality, says the trust does not have any immediate plans for the properties.
“We continue to buy blighted property around the Water Campus to improve the corridor between LSU and downtown,” Rance says.
Carrol Castille’s company CC River District LLC was the seller. In 2019, Castille’s tracts were included as part of developer Michel Moreno’s River District. But the 42-acre package never found a buyer.
The real estate investment partner of BRAF, CPRT manages and develops properties on the foundation’s behalf. The trust developed The Water Campus and IBM office complex, as well as luxury residential properties 525 Lafayette, OneEleven on Third Street, Onyx Residences and 200 Water Street.
This post was edited on 2/23/23 at 10:50 am
Posted on 2/23/23 at 8:42 am to cajuntiger1010
There has been some gentrification in that area. Mostly apartments that end up looking like a gated flower bed sitting in the midst of a pile of manure.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:03 am to mdomingue
The hipsters at Brickyard South and Tinroof are a start at that gentrification
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:07 am to cajuntiger1010
Hipsters and gays are usually the first sign of gentrification.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:10 am to goofball
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Mayor Broom refused about $500 million in federal funds to build a transit line along Nicholson because it went to LSU and not north Baton Rouge.
Then the owners of the land next to Magnolia Mound ended up never recovering from the recession and it's all owned by their bank.
But....LSU is growing in size like crazy and the Water Campus is slowly coming together. It's just the stuff in between that still needs work.
I think it very well could thrive. It'll take a massive amount of work and won't be any time soon, but I've always thought that property in between LSU and downtown was a buy low opportunity with lots of potential. The issue is I don't see the turn happening any time in the near future.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:12 am to cajuntiger1010
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it would seem like Nicholson/River Road along the river going north to downtown could try to improve itself.
If memory serves, that was Kip's goal. He worked to make downtown a worthwhile place for the college students to go and then wanted to create an economic corridor along Nicholson which would connect the two.
Someone else mentioned the street car money SWB turned down, that was to be part of his vision as well (I think).
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:18 am to goofball
I’ve heard rumors in the past of a new PMAC being built down Nicholson.
That side of the north gates is doing much better than the Highland side.
That side of the north gates is doing much better than the Highland side.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:19 am to cajuntiger1010
I read this thread as "between Dutchtown and LSU" and was so confused for about 90 seconds.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:19 am to whoa
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That side of the north gates is doing much better than the Highland side.
Highland side is so bad. Anything near Thomas Delpit is crime central.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:22 am to cajuntiger1010
They need to focus on defending the rest of BR at this point. We are on the defense, not offense...
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:26 am to cajuntiger1010
A guy named Michel Moreno out of Lafayette bought all those houses on the west side of Nicholson several years ago. He was flying high with oil/fracking $$ but lost it all.
The Advocate
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A power generation company owned by Michel Moreno, the Lafayette oilman who had plans for a 35-acre River District development between downtown Baton Rouge and LSU before being foreclosed on, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
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Moreno had proposed the 34.8-acre River District development on Nicholson Drive between downtown Baton Rouge and LSU, with plans for two hotels, 1,832 apartments and townhomes, a possible neighborhood grocery store and 118,500 square feet of commercial space. The property is near the Water Campus, a development by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation next to the river.
The Advocate
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:27 am to cajuntiger1010
Just a guess, but if the move was to buy up all of the neighborhoods and demo the houses, even on a property-by-property basis, the expense of remediating the homes of ACM and LBP before shipping the rubble to the landfill would be cost prohibitive.
It’s why it’s easier to let them turn into crack houses and inevitably catch fire.
It’s why it’s easier to let them turn into crack houses and inevitably catch fire.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:29 am to cajuntiger1010
There’s no way the area will ever improve. It starts with the people who live there. The vast majority of people who live there, live on fixed, Government subsidized incomes. Generation, after generation that have lived in that shithole environment don’t care to change or have the desire to better themselves. It will forever be, a dangerous, ghetto shithole.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:31 am to Breauxsif
If btr ever moved to improve the area, SJW shitheads like the red helmeted one would be shrieking racism on every media available.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:38 am to btnetigers
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I remember always being told to stay away from the dead president streets. It's a crappy part of Baton Rouge.
“State streets and presidents, murder for the presidents
SOUTHSIDE SOUTH SOUTH SOUTH SIDE”
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:44 am to cajuntiger1010
I've been promoting this idea for almost a decade but I don't have the needed capital to make it work.
I have spoken to several large developers in this area and they like the idea but are afraid to touch it for being called 'racists'.
My idea was to buy the entire area under the guise of an LSU Foundation type of group and turn it into a true Research Park for LSU.
But the racism plank is just too strong, folks would rather live on great grandpa's house that has been paid off since 1933 and is being held up by the termites holding hands just so that they can afford to buy a new Charger every year.
Currently for sale on Sennete St.
I have spoken to several large developers in this area and they like the idea but are afraid to touch it for being called 'racists'.
My idea was to buy the entire area under the guise of an LSU Foundation type of group and turn it into a true Research Park for LSU.
But the racism plank is just too strong, folks would rather live on great grandpa's house that has been paid off since 1933 and is being held up by the termites holding hands just so that they can afford to buy a new Charger every year.
Currently for sale on Sennete St.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 9:51 am to cajuntiger1010
Sure. Kick out and relocate the people living and working there, bulldoze everything and rebuild with nicer places and businesses. It’s that simple.
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:06 am to cajuntiger1010
With the expansion of North BR, no!
Posted on 2/23/23 at 10:10 am to cajuntiger1010
You would have to Gentrify it in order to squeeze out the bad element.
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