Property Overview

  • Howell Place is a 200-acre tract of North Baton Rouge land that has been transformed from unused acreage to a multi-use commercial land industrial park.
  • Only a ten-minute drive from downtown Baton Rouge, Howell Place is strategically bounded by the intersection of Harding Boulevard at I-110 and Plank Road at Airline Highway. With immediate access to I-110, US 190 and US 61, Howell Place is located to serve warehousing and distribution center needs.
  • Harding Boulevard at Plank Road sees a 38,600 daily traffic count.
  • Located adjacent to Howell Place, the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport traffics more than 820,000 travelers annually.
  • East of the site, along the Mississippi River, are Southern University and numerous industrial plants including the ExxonMobil refinery. Together, these employ over 10,000 individuals.
  • Howell Place is home to four hotels – Hilton Garden Inn, Marriott Spring Hill Suites, Hampton Inn and Microtel Inn & Suites. The $15.5 million, 131-room Hilton Garden Inn was Baton Rouge’s first full-service airport hotel.
  • ExxonMobil, Entergy and Georgia Pacific use 80,000 hotel rooms annually.
  • Five restaurants and fast food chains are located on the property:Sonic Drive-In Restaurant, Burger King, Subway, IHOP and Country Kitchen.
  • A 290,000 square foot medical office building with 995 parking spaces including Oschner Health Center – Harding.
  • Howell Place is also home to a 100-unit apartment complex.
  • Directly across from Howell Place, on Harding Boulevard, is the East Baton Rouge Public Safety Complex. The complex is home to the Mayor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, emergency medical services and training facilities, and the $40 million city-parish telecommunications center, which is designed to improve traffic flow in the parish.