Plans Set for $5M Bayou Park-Hotel Project

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PLAQUEMINE, LA-Bayou Plaquemine, 13 miles south of Baton Rouge and 60 miles northwest of New Orleans, is on its way to reinventing itself as city officials plan to break ground in late 2007 on the third phase of an estimated $5-million, mixed-use waterfront project.

Plaquemine Mayor Tony Gulotta, who is orchestrating the project, couldn’t be reached for comment by GlobeSt.com’s publication time. But city hall sources and sources in Baton Rouge intimate with the project tell GlobeSt.com the third phase will have a 70-room Best Western Inn, an expanded boardwalk that already stretches for 1,000 feet and a 10,000-sf open air amphitheater.