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re: Developing the Surrounding Areas of Tiger Land
Posted on 5/12/22 at 7:03 pm to Datfish
Posted on 5/12/22 at 7:03 pm to Datfish
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Places like Athens, which recruits love for the college scene, make Tiger Land look like a third world country.
Nah the recruits actually like ratchet bars/clubs. They don’t like classy/clean places to go party at. Let’s be honest here. Pretty sure many recruits over the years have chosen LSU because they were shown a good time out at tigerland.
As a student/alum, we’re the ones that prefer a cleaner strip of bars to go out at.
The better question here is, why don’t people just take all of the bars at tiger land and relocate to north gate? Chimes St has heavy potential for a solid strip of college bars. Right next to campus. Right by fraternity row, right by chimes and the varsity. Makes no sense why it’s full of junky places.
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Posted on 5/12/22 at 7:33 pm to turnpiketiger
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Makes no sense why it’s full of junky places.
Owners charge absurd rent
Posted on 5/12/22 at 7:53 pm to turnpiketiger
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Nah the recruits actually like ratchet bars/clubs.
I don't disagree with that statement. I'm talking about developing the surrounding apartments in that neighborhood section. The majority of the border is surrounded by Ag fields.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:04 pm to Datfish
In the 90’s, those “sketchy” apartments were middle class to upper middle class student apartments. I’m guessing when all of the fancy apartments popped up on Burbank past Lee/College street, it pulled a lot of the students that would have previously lived in Tigerland/Sharlo etc., which were backfilled with section 8 renters. Was Katrina also a catalyst? Extra/guaranteed money if renters were displaced from the hurricane?
To fix it, put in a new mixed use development where the golf course is, and the area around it will likely gentrify on its own because of capitalism.
To fix it, put in a new mixed use development where the golf course is, and the area around it will likely gentrify on its own because of capitalism.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 10:09 pm to Datfish
The people that own those places won’t sell. Most are owned outright and are dumps but stay rented. So it’s just straight cash coming in. It’s the same reason Ivanhoe and Carlotta never got razed and rebuilt. Some properties were fixed up and made nicer but most were not
Posted on 5/12/22 at 11:00 pm to Datfish
Great memories there in the late 80's early 90's. We used to eat at TigerBurger damn near every night because it was 50 feet from our front door and he would take our worthless checks. He did eventually cut us off...
Sports, Freds, The Tiger, Fountainhead Apt Kegs on Thursdays.
I hope the kids today are able to have some of the fun that we had.
Sports, Freds, The Tiger, Fountainhead Apt Kegs on Thursdays.
I hope the kids today are able to have some of the fun that we had.
Posted on 5/12/22 at 11:16 pm to Datfish
I never went to Tiger Land as a student. I stayed away from the fricked up areas. I associated the place with first year drop outs.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 6:24 am to Alt26
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How about just general student recruiting.
Are you joking or just uninformed? LSU turns away THOUSANDS of student applicants each year. They don't need trashy bars to attract regular students. This thread was about attracting STUDENT-ATHLETES, which is stupid in the age of NIL.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 6:32 am to Alt26
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But forget athletic recruits
Didn’t bother Jordan Jefferson. He loved kickin it at Shady’s.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 6:34 am to Datfish
Tigerland and Brightside were the tits in the 80s.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 7:03 am to kkv75
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They don't need trashy bars to attract regular students.
The point is to improve the areas of the trashy bars. And students do complain about how the main college bar scene is sketchy as hell.
How would developing the area ever be a bad thing? Crime is a huge deal in Baton Rouge and people complain about it all the time because nothing gets done. Removing old sketchy apartments known for attracting criminals in a small secluded area seems like a proactive solution instead of proposing a "week of peace". If anything, it would just improve the safety for the students that do go there.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 7:04 am to Datfish
If there was money to be made it would have been developed.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 8:58 am to Datfish
It is never bad to improve something. But don't say it's to recruit regular students. LSU turns away thousands yearly.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 9:19 am to Datfish
Nobody is going to buyout the current land owners, bulldoze the area, and build housing in an area that already has too much of it
Posted on 5/13/22 at 9:36 am to Datfish
I have a retired friend who lived in the Gardere area when he attended LSU. He said it was glorious, apts. and 4 plexes full of students.
Then one of the owners began taking sec. 8 and they could not live there any longer. They would go to class and come back to robbed out dwellings.
I have often wondered why LSU never bought the property bounded by Roosevelt , Highland,Nicholson and I-10. That would make a great research park for the university, sort of like CAMD was supposed to be.
Then one of the owners began taking sec. 8 and they could not live there any longer. They would go to class and come back to robbed out dwellings.
I have often wondered why LSU never bought the property bounded by Roosevelt , Highland,Nicholson and I-10. That would make a great research park for the university, sort of like CAMD was supposed to be.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 9:39 am to kkv75
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So... you want some rich frick to spend his money on worthless apartments in order to spend more money tearing down those, more money building a bunch of bars so that will ---appeal to recruits??
How about you just pay them an NIL? A lot cheaper and lot quicker.
Some "rich frick" in your jealousy laced comment spending his money on fixing that area would be 150,000,000x better than him lighting the money on fire by giving it to a dumbass 17 year old to play sportsball.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 9:48 am to Datfish
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Places like Athens
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make Tiger Land look like a third world country.
It really does. I love LSU but it lacks the college town vibe like other schools.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 9:50 am to Datfish
When I lived there over 20 years ago it was dumpy but I never felt like I was going to get shot and mugged by undesirables. Shame how they let them take over
Posted on 5/13/22 at 9:54 am to Datfish
Fresh take on an old subject.
Posted on 5/13/22 at 10:07 am to Datfish
I’ve thought that this would happen for years. At some point it will. The City Parish and/or the State need to put in place incentives for it to spark immediate interest. Tax breaks, grants etc.
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