The Ouachita Candy Company Building

Cleanup came before redevelopment. KNOE puts the building's construction at 1920 and calls it a hub for local manufacturing that sat dormant for years. After Monroe bought it in 2021, the city used an EPA Brownfields grant to clean and prepare the site, and by August 2025 the work had reached abatement. Crews found church pews, benches and architectural doors inside, and the city auctioned them online from August 27 to September 12, 2025. On March 11, 2026, KNOE reported the city council approving the move forward on redevelopment.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 1.0 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.3 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 3.8 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 5.7 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• Art Alley — steps away
• St. Matthew Catholic Church — 0.3 mi
• Don Juan Filhiol Historic Preservation District — 0.3 mi
• Webb Pierce — 0.3 mi