It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

It’s a well worn cliché around here that Baton Rouge is a tale of two cities – with both the highest income levels and outcomes in the state and the lowest. Which of the two cities you’re in depends on whether you’re north or south of Florida Boulevard. There are a lot of reasons for this. On this edition of Out to Lunch, Stephanie and her guests focus specifically on real estate investment – and dis-investmet and reinvestment – to better understand how and where developers are investing in this community, and what’s going on in some long-neglected areas. Chris Tyson is President and CEO of Build Baton Rouge, the city-parish redevelopment authority, which was founded in 2009 to promote equitable investment in disinvested communities throughout Baton Rouge. Chris took over at the helm of Build Baton Rouge in 2016 and is leading the agency through an ambitious effort to revitalize one of Baton Rouge’s most blighted corridors – Plank Road. Chris is a r