Openings for Electric Depot’s newest Mid City tenants were delayed this spring due to the stay-at-home order.
We reached out to each business to get updates on their opening dates. All the business owners that are setting up shop in the mixed-use development on Government Street agreed they can’t wait to see what the future has in store for the historic warehouse complex. Here’s the latest from current and upcoming tenants.
It’s almost a guarantee that if a bar is planning to open too close to a residential neighborhood in East Baton Rouge Parish, the chambers of City Hall will be filled with opponents rallying against it.
But that’s just not the case on Government Street.
On Monday evening, residents and homeowners from Mid City — skewing a little younger than the average group of residents attending a municipal meeting — filled the council chambers and implored the Planning Commission to allow a proposed beer garden to open at the corner of Government and Steele Boulevard.
Five groups of developers have submitted proposals to Catholic High School to redevelop the Westmoreland Village Shopping Center on Government Street in Mid City, which the school acquired in late 2010.
Gene Tullier, president of Catholic High, says he is very happy with the proposals the school has received because each includes a unique idea none of the other proposals has, and they all featured a mixed-use component with residential and retail ideas.
