RiverPlace Condominiums

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building_name= RiverPlace Hotel/Condominium


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location= 358 Third Street
Baton Rouge, LA
status= Approved
groundbreaking= Unknown
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floor_count= 26-30cite web| url=http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/business/24410924.html| title=Preis: Plans Revamped|year=11 July 2008|publisher: 2theadvocate.com| accessdate=2008-07-11]
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cost= $135 million
architect= Washer Hill Lipscomb Architecture, LLCcite web| url=http://www.riverplacebr.com/developers.html| title=The Development Team|publisher: RiverPlaceCondominiums.com| accessdate=2008-07-11]
engineer= SCA Consulting Engineers
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developer= Richard Preis
Michael Albritton
Mark Washauer
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RiverPlace Condominiums is a residential tower that is proposed to be built on the Baton Rouge riverfront and currently in the design phase, but is expected to reach groundbreaking in 2009. The project is headed up by real estate executive Richard Preis. Subject to recent skepticism over whether or not it will ever be completed, the project has been "under construction" (with an empty lot) since 2002, and numerous articles have for years suggested construction is "right around the corner".

In July 2008 "The Advocate" reported that the project had once again been redesigned and is now set to be a 300-room hotel with multiple condominiums available on the top floor(s). Featuring more retail space than in earlier plans, the tower has apparently drawn interest from two national hotel chains and two high-profile New Orleans restaurants. The name will likely change but still use the "RiverPlace" moniker in some way. Crews will drive test piles sometime before Labor Day 2008, and work should begin by January 2009, setting the opening for as early as summer 2010.

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* cite web
title=RiverPlace Condominiums
url=http://www.riverplacebr.com