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re: What caused the area between downtown and LSU to become so ghetto?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:05 am to Ihatethiscity
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:05 am to Ihatethiscity
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Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:10 am to Saint93
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Title problems can make it pretty much impossible to borrow money to improve, maintain, or sell a property. Let a property or a neighborhood go through a couple generations without a proper succession and that’s the result.
Somebody's paying that property tax though.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:17 am to bdavids09
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probably white flight
It's always been a black area since after the Civil War
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Old South Baton Rouge was originally part of Baton Rouge’s Magnolia Mound Plantation, which spread across 900 acres to the Mississippi River in the late-1700s through 1800s. The plantation still sits on Nicholson Drive, now a historic landmark that occupies about 15 acres. After the Civil War, former black slaves moved into “the Bottom,” which had cheap property values because of its hilly topography and tendency to flood.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:18 am to Bard
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Somebody's paying that property tax though.
No they aren’t
Homestead exemption covers up to 75000 a year in property tax and they never reassess unless the property gets sold
ETA: Jeff Landry should get rid of homestead exemption and then all the ghetto could be bought up at the sheriff sale
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 9:19 am
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:18 am to BabyTac
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I’ve seen Austin and Houston go to complete shite in the last decade. Covid exacerbated it. Austin esp. used to be a thriving downtown. Yea, there’s still a handful of purple haired white chicks and foreigners there, but it’s done. Add remote work capabilities and nobody with a family wants to live amongst the trash
My general observation is that big cities have gone backward in the last 10 years (opioids, cost of housing) but mid-sized cities and smaller cities are still trending up. I was in Knoxville a few months ago and there were people everywhere and lines outside of restaurants on a Sunday afternoon. When I lived up there 30 years ago, Knoxville shut down after 5 and was dead on the weekends.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:22 am to Ihatethiscity
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What caused the area between downtown and LSU to become so ghetto?
LBJ
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:24 am to Shexter
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It's always been a black area since after the Civil War
Ah I didn’t know that. Well that explains it. But didn’t parts of north BR use to be white?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:25 am to WizardSleeve
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The same mechanism that makes all ghettos in our country:
Your explanation isn’t wrong but can be shortened to one single word but I don’t want to get banned.
This post was edited on 3/25/26 at 11:09 am
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:32 am to Ihatethiscity
Typically, low elevation has to do with it.
The poorer people have historically had to live in lower areas.
That area is called "The Bottoms"
The poorer people have historically had to live in lower areas.
That area is called "The Bottoms"
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:52 am to bdavids09
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didn’t parts of north BR use to be white?
The area between LSU and downtown is not considered North Baton Rouge, but actually South Baton Rouge.
The road that separates south and north Baton Rouge is Florida Blvd.
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North Baton Rouge generally starts north of Florida Boulevard and extends north toward Thomas Road, bordered by the Mississippi River to the west and Interstate 110 to the east. It is a major area north of downtown, with the Scotlandville neighborhood being a key section.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:53 am to Ihatethiscity
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So Huey Long decided the middle of the fkn Ghetto is where LSU needed to be?
You start a thread that asks a question. You then proceed to tell the people who attempt to answer the question that they’re wrong.
Then you post this. Consider logging out.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:54 am to bdavids09
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But didn’t parts of north BR use to be white?
I grew up off of Monterrey and greenwell springs. It was all white back then.
But that has nothing to do with why the area north of LSU is a shithole
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:54 am to Ihatethiscity
The bottom, etc?
New to the area, are you?
New to the area, are you?
Posted on 3/25/26 at 9:59 am to TankBoys32
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I've said this before but Pineville could've been a bad arse college town if LSU would've stayed there. Middle of the state and you got Buhlow lake right there and the Red River. Alexandria is kind of run down now but Pineville is pretty decent area.
It’s an interesting discussion but hard to work through given how different things were back then to now. Alexandria was big time back then. Multiple military bases, businesses and such. It was developing as a huge hub city.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:02 am to member12
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The pocket of higher end stuff on Nicholson near Magnolia Mound was not developed until the 1950s, and it was demolished around 2006 to make room for a real estate development that went belly up during the recession and never happened.
Yep. They demolished some really nice older homes on Nicholson to make way for the development that never happened. It would’ve gone a long way toward cleaning up that strip. Surely, some developer will come along at some point and will make another attempt.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:05 am to el Gaucho
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ETA: Jeff Landry should get rid of homestead exemption and then all the ghetto could be bought up at the sheriff sale
So, frick over a whole bunch of honest people by creating a larger tax burden just to grab a tiny area of property from some black people? Gotcha.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:06 am to Ihatethiscity
I blame Red Flower for the mess that Baton Ruj is in.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:06 am to Ihatethiscity
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bullshite. My dad grew up in the 60's in north baton rouge and it wasn't the way it is now for sure.
The area between downtown and LSU isnt near north Baton Rouge though.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:23 am to cgrand
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I grew up off of Monterrey and greenwell springs. It was all white back then.
Hello old neighbor. Previous Flannery Road resident checking in.
Villa Oaks was the best grocery store ever.
Posted on 3/25/26 at 10:42 am to TankBoys32
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I've said this before but Pineville could've been a bad arse college town if LSU would've stayed there. Middle of the state and you got Buhlow lake right there and the Red River. Alexandria is kind of run down now but Pineville is pretty decent area.
Man, I don't know about this. It's a nice thought, as I grew up in Pineville (72-91) before moving to BR. But I just don't see it ever having become some big college town. I don't really get your point about the Red River or Buhlow Lake. Neither really offers anything regarding a college town. Pineville had no mall, no bars, no movie theater, hell they didn't even sell hard liquor. Not sure if any of that has changed over the years. I don't know, I think Pineville as a major college town would be the equivalent of a red headed stepchild to Starkville.
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