BATON ROUGE - A survey to shape downtown Baton Rouge closes in less than a week, and those with previous plans say it is time to take another look at the downtown.

In 1998, the people of Baton Rouge piled into meetings, pitching ideas of what the downtown could look like. It was for the first Plan Baton Rouge, a downtown development master plan.

Former Baton Rouge Area Foundation Executive Vice President John Spain said the goal was to create a 24-hour city.

"People live here, walk to work, when they get off work and go to lunch, eat at a restaurant downtown, that was the key, that's what happened, that spurred an entire economy centered around entertainment, what happens after 5 o'clock," Spain said.

Also in the 1990s, the creation of the Capitol Campus, where the state moved 3,000 of

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