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Metro Council defers Delmont (Plank Road) Economic Development District after extended public hearing
Summary
A Metropolitan Council meeting on Nov. 12, 2025, opened with a lengthy presentation from Deidre Douglas Robert, president and CEO of Build East Baton Rouge, on economic development districts and a proposed Delmont (Plank Road) Economic Development District.
A Metropolitan Council meeting on Nov. 12, 2025, opened with a lengthy presentation from Deidre Douglas Robert, president and CEO of Build East Baton Rouge, on economic development districts and a proposed Delmont (Plank Road) Economic Development District. Build EBR described a strategy of pairing infrastructure investments (Move EBR roadway and bus-rapid-transit work) with targeted façade grants, property coordination and rolling RFPs to attract private reinvestment along Plank Road.
The presentation highlighted recent grant wins — including $140,000 from the Delta Regional Authority to support planning for Plank Road and Scenic Highway — and emphasized that EDDs can reinvest a share of new local revenue back into a corridor for sidewalks, lighting, façade work, and job-creation programs. "When infrastructure meets place making, people return and businesses…
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