Cultural Planning in Old South Baton Rouge

For the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge in partnership with the Center for Planning Excellence (CPEX), with funding from the Kresge Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, an interdisciplinary team prepared an Implementation Strategy for using the arts as a tool for regenerating economic development and ongoing civic engagement within the economically distressed Old South Baton Rouge community. By preserving the community’s cultural heritage while providing resources for economic and quality of life investments, the project will build on revitalization efforts currently in progress. JLP+D provided community outreach and strategic planning and real estate development advisory services to the team to identify potentially transformative public realm investments for OSBR, programming to bring visitor traffic to the area, and opportunities for public-private partnerships in mixed-use development to strengthen the economic base of the community.