Livingston Parish is the state’s fastest growing parish. It is located on I-12 between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s largest metropolitan areas. While Livingston Parish offers all of the business amenities and services which appeal to commercial establishments, it also affords its residents a high quality of life with top-rated schools, low crime rates and abundant recreational opportunities.
Livingston Parish Points of Interest:
- Fastest growing parish in Louisiana
- Conveniently located between Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport and New Orleans International Airport
- Population is projected to grow over 5% by 2010.
- Number of households is expected to increase 7.3% by 2010
- Medical Facilities: Medical Center of Baton Rouge only a few miles away and two hospitals in Hammond only five miles from the eastern border of the parish, 2 clinics, 17 doctors and 18 dentists. Two nursing homes. LSU and Tulane Medical Centers in New Orleans and numerous other public and private medical facilities in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
- There are two shopping centers located in Denham Springs and many large centers located in Baton Rouge, a few miles to the west. Several large regional shopping centers are also located in Hammond, a few miles to the east of the parish
- Communications in the area include a local semi-weekly newspaper (The Livingston Parish News Denham Springs). Metropolitan daily newspapers from Baton Rouge and New Orleans are also circulated in Livingston Parish. There is one AM (WBIU) and one FM (KRVE) station in Denham Springs. Many Baton Rouge and New Orleans stations are available in Livingston Parish.
- Television stations can be received from Baton Rouge including all five networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and FOX). Cable service is also available in the parish and provides up to 35 stations.
- Transportation: This road is on the Federal Aid Primary program (FAP, 50ft ROW with 24 ft. paved surface) and runs parallel to I-12 within the parish and with I-10 through most of the southern United States. To the east of Livingston Parish this highway connects with I-55 and continues through Slidell to U. S. 90 at the eastern border of the state. This highway is well used and maintained for commercial traffic toward I-55 and throughout the state.
- The Illinois Central Railroad serves Livingston Parish. The tracks run east and west, paralleling U.S. 190 and I-12.
- 42 freight carriers service the area including
- The businesses in the nearly 500-acre complex should produce more than $500 million in retail sales per year,
- Livingston Area Human Resources Association: The county group hosts a variety of guests who speak about legislative, employment, health-care plans and other issues relating to the human resources field.
- The downtown antique district of Denham Springs has gained a reputation as a "hot" area for antique buyers, with nearly 30 antique shops, a bank, a gourmet coffee shop, a restaurant, a florist and various other retail shops. Some of the shops bill themselves as antique malls because of the size of the store and large number of dealers within the store. Even the small shops often have several dealers displaying their wares, so you always find a wide variety of merchandise within each business.
- The Juban Crossing and Juban Market Place will be a 1,295,000-square-foot open air, mixed-use center in Denham Springs, LA. The "new urbanist community" of Juban Crossing will include more than 1.2 million square feet of retail space, 385,000 square feet of medical and office space and more than 1,100 homes.
- Livingston Parish is one of the sites for the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). This prestigious research station, in collaboration with Cal-Tech, MIT and LSU, is at the cutting edge of gravitational physics research and laser technology. LIGO is dedicated to the detection of cosmic gravitational waves and the harnessing of these waves for scientific research. It consist of two widely-separated installations within the United States, this one near Livingston, and the other at Hanford, Washington, operated in unison as a single observatory. Tours of the facility are available on Fridays at 3 p.m. with no advance reservation necessary.
Recreation
4 public parks, a golf course, a community swimming pool numerous ball fields and seven tennis courts. Boating, tubing, and fishing on local rivers and lakes are also major activities for visitors and residents of the parish. Two country dubs are also avail- able in the parish. The parish also has access to the vast recreational and cultural facilities of the metropolitan New Orleans area: including the new Aquarium of the Americas, the New Orleans Symphony, opera and ballet, the National Football Leagues New Orleans Saints, NCAA college athletics from Tulane University, University of New Orleans, Louisiana State University, and others. Two race tracks are also located there. Boating and fishing on Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain are also major activities for visitors and residents of the parish.
