It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

If you spend much time in Baton Rouge business circles, you know that real estate is one of the most vibrant and robust sectors of the local economy.  The real estate market has been on a roll since the Great Recession, with a boom in new commercial and office development and a steady increase in residential activity.  That is, up until the Covid crisis of 2020 threw a wrench in the real estate market, as it has with so much else. Now we're looking at what we are optimistically calling a post Covid economy and in Baton Rouge post Covid real estate there are surprising opportunities. Real estate experts are  trying to wrap their heads around what’s going on and where we’re headed. Dottie Tarleton is a Senior Broker Associate at Stirling Properties.  Dottie specializes in commercial real estate – retail shopping centers – which were already in the process of reinventing themselves before the pandemic, thanks to the Amazon effect. Dottie sees the transition of the mall