Construction teams have begun renovating the assets of the old church at 250 S. Foster Drive, next to the A.C. Lewis YMCA branch near Government Street, which will be the new home of the Franklin Associates consulting firm.
Work began before this summer and is expected to be completed in time for the facility’s opening in January 2021, which will feature not only 6,600 square feet of workplace space, but also a 5,000-square-foot convention center that will be available. for companies and civic rental teams for meetings and meetings.
“I’m delighted,” says Perry Franklin, founder and owner of Franklin Associates. “Many bands have already contacted me to say, “Hey, can we have our Kiwanis club with you?” This is the kind of people I need to have as normal tenants.”
Franklin will also use the Center for Public Awareness and Educational Meetings, which your company provides on behalf of its government customers.
These customers come with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development, with which Franklin is running on the expansion of Interstate 10 and the new Mississippi Southern Bridge Project, as well as in the city’s parish, with which Franklin works as a subcontractor in MovEBR.
Franklin is spending more than $2 million on the project, adding the acquisition of the assets in July 2019, but believes it will be good to value it in the long run. In addition to renting the event center, the assets are two undeveloped plots that you plan to remodel into two separate advertising spaces.
“This is a significant investment in a Baton Rouge component I’ve been working on for nearly 20 years,” says Franklin, who was hired to lead the Mid City Redevelopment Alliance in 1994, when the company was only 3 years old. I’d lead it for the next 11 years.
The asset is the moment in this immediate domain in which Franklin is undergoing refurbishment. In 2019, he swept a car wash at 4550 Government Street, which he had acquired several years ago, and rebuilt it as part of a custom agreement as a doctors’ building, which opened recently.
“This construction follows all the rules of the Government Street Overlay District,” says Franklin, who helped draft the district’s bylaws in 2003. “It is built on the front edge of the property, the car parking lot is in the back, it is placed that somehow protects cars from the street view and has a monument sign. So this is an example for me of how you form a community and create a friendly community for pedestrians and bicycles.