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BBQGuys is a barbecue grill retailer headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was founded in 1998 by Air Force veteran Michael Hackley [5] and his wife, Ladina Hackley, as the Grill Store & More, and later rebranded as BBQGuys as the store transitioned to online retail during the dot-com bubble. In 2019, BBQGuys was awarded the Small ...
The Mall of Louisiana is a mid-scale shopping mall in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, between I-10 and Bluebonnet Blvd. It is the largest mall in Louisiana and contains the third largest indoor carousel in the world. [2] It is the only regional mall in Baton Rouge. The anchor stores are 2 Dillard's stores, Main Event Entertainment, JCPenney, and Macy's.
Cortana Mall opened in 1976 on the site of the old Cortana Plantation. [1] Goudchaux's/Maison Blanche was the first store to open, opening on February 16. [2] The rest of the mall, initially containing 100 inline tenants opened on August 4, with three additional anchors, JCPenney, Dillard's, and Sears, as well as a three-screen cinema operated by General Cinema Corporation, opening in the ...
The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse-Baton Rouge, also known as Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was built in 1932. It includes Art Deco and Moderne architecture. It served historically as a post office, as a courthouse, and as a government office building. [2] [3]
The one-stop shopping experience was further expanded to include such services as a barbershop, dentist office, and a jewelry store. [ 1 ] : 247–271 [ 2 ] As the number of stores in the chain increased, Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets contracted with architect Edward Mung-Yok Tsoi [ Wikidata ] for further designs and improvements.
[94] [95] [96] Chicago Bridge & Iron Company had an office in Baton Rouge before being sold in 2017. [97] In 2023, Aldi established a presence in Baton Rouge. [98] Baton Rouge is the farthest inland port on the Mississippi River that can accommodate ocean-going tankers and cargo carriers. The ships transfer their cargo (grain, oil, cars ...
The West Baton Rouge Museum includes the museum, the c. 1830 Aillet House, a c. 1870s Reconstruction Era worker's cabin, and a c. 1890s cabin decorated to look as it would have during the Civil Rights Era), the c. 1880s Arbroth Plantation Store, the c. 1938 Reed Farm and Ranch Shotgun House, and a reproduction early 20th-century barn.
Maison Blanche was acquired in 1923 by City Stores Company, which merged Maison Blanche with Loveman's in 1950. City Stores Co. filed for bankruptcy in July 1979. While in bankruptcy, they initially intended to consolidate the seven Maison Blanche stores with four B. Lowenstein's stores in Memphis, Tennessee, to form the Maison Blanche Department Stores group, but in early 1982 the Memphis ...