The Downtown Development District over the past three decades has been heavily involved in the master planning processes of Downtown Baton Rouge. These important processes have provided our city with tremendous vision and focus to become America’s great next city. Our most recent master plan “Plan Baton Rouge Two,” has endorsed many of the initiative’s in past master plans; while pushing the envelope on new and fresh ideas. Plan Baton Rouge Two is an update to Plan Baton Rouge One, which has an eighty-five percent implementation percentage. Below is a complete listing of Downtown Baton Rouge Master Plans since 1990. Please click on the links provided to browse many years of creative thinking.
Plan Baton Rouge, now in its eleventh year of implementation, has produced a broad local consensus on behalf of creating a more active, livable, enjoyable downtown environment for the city.
The Baton Rouge Riverfront Master Plan Concept identifies opportunities and constraints for public improvements. Potential private development opportunities were explored in concert with configuring public components, both institutional and open space.
The Baton Rouge Riverfront Master Plan Concept identifies opportunities and constraints for public improvements. Potential private development opportunities were explored in concert with configuring public components, both institutional and open space.
The Baton Rouge Riverfront Master Plan Concept identifies opportunities and constraints for public improvements. Potential private development opportunities were explored in concert with configuring public components, both institutional and open space.
The downtown Wayfinding Signage plan was initiated by the Downtown Development District. The plan has established a sense of place and continuity to the downtown area while making it easily navigable in an aesthetically pleasing manner.
The issues of parking management and provision have been and will continue to be central to any development efforts in Downtown. This report summarizes a 5-month long parking process that was undertaken to investigate, discuss and develop solutions related to parking demands.
The primary objective is a conceptual master plan of coordinated amenity improvements to compliment the impressive recent developments, plus promote and support the long-term growth, of the Downtown community.
This Master Plan for the New River District of Baton Rouge recognizes the fundamental role that streets play in the life of American cities and provides a framework for transforming the riverfront of Baton Rouge into a vibrant and beautiful urban environment.
The goal of this plan was to create a “sense of place” for State Government within the fabric of downtown Baton Rouge by applying techniques of established Campus Planning to the development of Capitol Park.
For one week, starting June 26, 1998, hundreds of residents of Baton Rouge, came out – not to stop a highway, not to stop a high-rise. They came to participate in a planning charrette devoted to the future of Downtown. Plan Baton Rouge is the product of that effort.
The goal of this plan was to relocate and consolidate the state offices to one area here in our downtown.
This was a masterplan put together by Eskew Filson Architects in collaboration with Chenevert Soderberg Architects.
This plan provided a blueprint for the economic revival of downtown. It created a special district through enabling state legislation which recognizes the unique importance of downtown Baton Rouge to the economic well being of the entire parish.
The Master Plan sets forth nine Implementation Components, addressing key Riverfront issues- connectivity, waterfront identity, placemaking, pedestrian circulation, recreational spaces- with specific and feasible recommendations.
The City of Baton Rouge received assistance from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Greening America’s Capitals Program to help the city envision a new Downtown Greenway. The goal of the Greening America’s Capitals project was to build off of the planning work already completed, and develop design options for five sites along the greenway’s route through downtown. The is project is part of the city’s larger strategy for greening Downtown Baton Rouge as described by the Plan Baton Rouge II.
EPA Greening America's Captials: Baton Rouge Downtown Greenway
The intent of this study is to provide information that will show how a new transportation infrastructure greenway can be integrated into the existing layout of the urban streets of Downtown Baton Rouge. Creating a Downtown Greenway will require meeting significant challenges, but with public, local, state and federal acceptance, the Downtown Greenway will prove to be a great return on investment.