New, privately-owned student residence addressing housing shortage among Southern University students

BATON ROUGE — On Friday, community leaders will officially open The Grove, a new privately owned student housing residence for Southern University students in Scotlandville.

Owner Brigette Patterson says she wanted to make a positive impact in the area with the new complex.

“We actually saw that they were trying to make new changes to Scotlandville. It’s not far away from our home, so we just decided to come in this area. We wanted to build up the community as well,” Patterson said…

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