re: White Star Market - Government Street

I think the place was overhyped and they definitely had issues keeping businesses in there. I think it could have survived for the remainder of the year but for covid. I don’t think it had much of a shelf life past that.

Government has improved greatly over the last ten years. However, many of these places will unfortunately shut down in the near future. I cannot see red stick social making it. Great concept with bad luck. Elsie’s will be fine. Radio bar will likely survive. Superior has been there forever and will survive. A few other places may make it. I’m not sure changing the structure of the street will have its desired affect.

The Broome administration has been nothing short of horrible for small business owners in Baton Rouge. She’s pretty much killed Third Street too.

For the love of God, please vote this woman out of office. Baton Rouge can’t take four more years of her.

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Government has improved greatly over the last ten years. However, many of these places will unfortunately shut down in the near future. I cannot see red stick social making it. Great concept with bad luck. Elsie’s will be fine. Radio bar will likely survive. Superior has been there forever and will survive. A few other places may make it. I’m not sure changing the structure of the street will have its desired affect.

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Why? White Star market died mostly because the successful vendors left to move to thier own solo locations then Covid hit. . It was always crowded. No reason to think it won't come back.

Government St restaurant scene was booming prior to Covid and will after Covid. No greater effect than anywhere in the City, maybe less due to the built in yuppie/hipster population ( capital heights etc.).
Have you been to the Beer Garden? It's always crowded.

Have you driven Mid City Government Street since the changes? It's working very well.

Once they get the landscaping in it will look great too.

They were trying to sell those condos for $200k, I think now they're just trying to lease them.

I still think the concept of white star is great. It’s a perfect idea for restaurants to test out a concept for a business without having to commit a shite load of money to a brick and mortar. COVID killed it but if that area ever becomes a true (Semi-safe) walking area with all that residential so close by, it will be successful.

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I should say I'm located on Government st. and went back and forth for years if the drop down to two lanes was good idea or not. But it looks like they did it just right. The choke point would have been Foster intersection and they kept that 4 lane. Also they put a left turn arrow at Govt West bound and Acadian going south.

Also before it was a major bitch to take a left out of the side streets. Now it's easy. Just jump into the median and wait for traffic to pass.

Me like.

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I'm not located on it, but I travel on it a fair bit. It's taking me a little bit of time to re-map the businesses I can and can't turn left directly into, but overall, I think it's going to work exactly as intended.

And dear god, do I love me that roundabout at Government/Lobdell...

Those dining halls are cool, but their main audience is a group of young professionals stopping by on their lunch break. Baton Rouge doesn't have a large population of that demographic, and the ones that do live here don't really work in that part of town.

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. She’s pretty much killed Third Street too.

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Don’t worry, guys. Hollywood Casino is building their land based casino. Comes equipped with Shaq’s fried chicken and daiquiri shop. All of downtown is about to be culturally enriched beyond anything we’ve seen.

Agreed. I can't for the life of me get what all the complaining is about with this project. Government street looks about 1000x nicer than it ever has. If people don't want the slower pace to get downtown, just jump one street over to Florida. I seriously don't get it.