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For sale or lease: empty retail spaces over 20,000 square feet offer opportunity for creative developers - A Directory of Big Box Retail Spaces - Public

Listed by available square footage.

Business Report has compiled a directory of available retail buildings with more than 20,000 square feet, in an attempt to spur creative economic development of abandoned buildings around our city's core.

A non-retail business locating or expanding in a city-parish-designated Enterprise Zone will receive a rebate of 1.9 percent of the sales tax paid to the city-parish for construction materials and equipment and 4 percent of the state sales tax. The state will also credit $2,500 to the business' income tax for each new job created.

Under city-parish guidelines, if the business is retail, it will not qualify for local tax rebates unless it is located in a Census Tract and Block Group with a minimum of 55 percent of lower-income residents.

A preliminary review of project eligibility is completed by the city-parish at the time of application. Even if it does not meet the eligibility criteria for local tax rebates, it may still qualify for state benefits.

1. Old Kmart

Location: 2001 Millerville Road

Previous uses: Kmart

Square feet: 178,158

Price: Negotiable

Contact: Kmart at www.kimcorealty.com/kmart-stores/index.asp

2. Old Sears

Location: Florida at Ardenwood

Previous uses: Sears; state Department of Revenue offices

Square feet: 150,000

Price: Variable depending on sale/lease options and the subdivision possibilities

Contact: Sealy and Falgoust, 766-1000

Falls in a city-parish designated Enterprise Zone.

3. Old Delchamps--Woodlawn Park

Location: 6600 Jones Creek Road

Previous uses: Delchamps

Square feet: 97,192

Price: $8.50-$11 per square foot

Contact: Gisele Abadie, 1-888-261-2022

4. Old Howard Brothers Kroger

Location: Florida at Donmoor

Previous uses: Grocery store

Square feet: 82,500

Price: Negotiable

Contact: 291-9025

Falls in a city-parish designated Enterprise Zone.

5. Old Sports Authority

Location: Florida at Airline

Previous uses: Sporting goods store

Square feet: 61,840

Price: $4-$10 per square foot

Contact: Dottie Tarleton, Stirling Properties, 926-4481

6. Old Delchamps

Location: Miller Village Shopping Center

Previous uses: Grocery store

Square feet: 56,000

Price: Negotiable depending on subdivision and cost of retrofits

Contact: Debbie Rogers CLS, Equity One, (800) 867-2777

7. Old Delchamps--Highland Plaza

Location: 5255 Highland Road

Previous uses: Delchamps

Square feet: 55,976

Price: Flexible rents depending on size and use

Contact: Curt Wilson, (800) 662-8966

Falls in a city-parish designated Enterprise Zone.

8. Old Jumbo Sports

Location: 2084 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd.

Previous uses: National Supermarkets, sporting good stores

Square feet: 52,000

Price: $8 per square foot

Contact: Don Cook, GPI, 275-4144

9. Old Books-A-Million

Location: Cortana Plaza

Previous uses: Book store; Children's Palace toy store.

Square feet: 36,500

Price: Negotiable

Contact: Craig Sampson, (212) 935-1330

Falls in a city-parish designated Enterprise Zone.

10. Old Office Max

Location: Cortana Plaza

Previous uses: T.J. Maxx

Square feet: 23,500

Lease not immediately available from listed agent

Falls in a city-parish designated Enterprise Zone.

11. Old Winn Dixie

Location: Shenandoah South Shopping Center

Previous uses: Drug store, used furniture store

Square feet: 22,700

Price: $5,000 per month or $2.64 per square foot (as is)

Contact: Bill Gremillion, 295-0800

12. Old Weiner's

Location: Florida at Wooddale

Previous uses: Discount department store

Square feet: 20,000

Price: $10 per square foot

Contact: Beau Box at Latter and Blum, 295-0800

Not all East Baton Rouge Parish big box retail spaces are listed; only those responding to a request for information and with 20,000 square feet or more.