With the SpaceX news, Historically what are some of Louisianas biggest missed investments?

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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Mayor Kip Holden made an announcement Tuesday morning that a local developer has big plans for the Baton Rouge riverfront.

Holden says River Park will be a mixed-use development similar to Perkins Rowe.

While the project has the mayor's blessing, it is not ready to go.

This is a long-term project expected to take 10 years to complete.

The developer says River Park will occupy 1500 feet along the Mississippi, between the two casinos in downtown Baton Rouge.

Between 800 and 1200 condos for a variety of income levels and age groups are planned.

People living and working in the development will have 6000 parking spaces to use.

Those visiting will have 500 hotel rooms to choose from.

It will take $600 million to build the complex and that will provide over 200 construction jobs per year for the next decade.

Running the oil and gas companies out of NewO.

Oil and Gas. It’s hard to understand why our state is so poor and incompetent, whenever we’re one of the world’s leaders in having O&G. I don’t understand how we aren’t a smaller version of Texas tbh. There’s so much money and natural resource here. Many countries and states would go to war to get what we have.

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Running the oil and gas companies out of NewO.

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I don’t think any one ran them off necessarily. Some of that was a natural consolidation into a single central office in a larger city especially after a huge downturn in the oil and gas business when it became cheaper to import oil than drill for it domestically.

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Oil and Gas. It’s hard to understand why our state is so poor and incompetent, whenever we’re one of the world’s leaders in having O&G.

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…corruption…

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You ask yourself why Louisiana isn’t writing O & G dividend checks like Alaska. Alaska’s natives are self sufficient. Ours are nothing but a liability. From welfare to incarceration.