Easier I-12 access, golf community in parish's future

• By ERIN HERNANDEZ
• Advocate marketing writer
• Published: Dec 30, 2005

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Though sometimes it may seem like it, the Bass Pro Shop isn't the only development in Livingston Parish.

Plenty of residential construction is under way to keep up with the parish's rising population, and the state is building a new Interstate-12 interchange at Juban Road.

Pilings are currently being driven on the Juban Road project, which was let earlier this year by the Louisiana Department of Transportation.

Juban Road crosses I-12 between the Denham Springs and Walker exits.

The project involves removing the existing overpass and constructing a new one, along with acceleration and deceleration ramps, according to the state DOTD.

Denton-James, L.L.C. was awarded the $16,392,893.35 project, DOTD says.

When construction is complete, planners are hoping it will alleviate some of the bottlenecking at the Denham Springs on-ramp at rush hour, improve traffic flow in the area in general and boost economic development in the western part of Livingston Parish.

Construction is scheduled to take 600 days, and the project began in May, said Al Coburn, operations coordinator for Livingston Parish.

Also off Juban Road, project managers have broken ground on the 250-acre, 400-home Greystone Golf & Country Club, a community of single-family homes and town homes located on a championship-caliber golf course, according to the club's Web site.

Holmes & Company out of Orlando, Fla., responsible for the development, has designed more than 80 golf courses, including Augusta National and English Turn, the Web site says.

The development is on Wax Road, about five minutes from the Denham Springs exit off I-12.

It will include 20 greens, and organizers are hoping to have nine holes open by the fall. "They have machinery going at this time hard, fast and heavy, so I imagine they'll come very close to that," Coburn said.

"It's going to be high quality homes. All of that area will go up in value," he said, confirming that some homes are expected to be valued at $1 million.