A local nonprofit that provides educational programming for young people is building a $3 million amphitheater outside its north Baton Rouge offices.
The Louisiana Leadership Institute, an organization founded by U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, is building an Education and Wellness Hub that will serve as public gathering space for education, work and health related events. The site, which will provide free internet access, is just outside the institute’s building at 5763 Hooper Road.
The hub consists of a 1,000-seat outdoor theater with a concrete stage with a roof and platform seating, with an overall 17,000 square foot footprint. Construction commenced last month and will be complete by the end of the year…