Downtown Lafayette needs another sewer fix
Two years after a local agency stepped in to fund necessary sewer capacity upgrades in Downtown Lafayette, another fix is needed and a new plan is in the works.
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Lafayette Public Trust Financing Authority (LPTFA)
Northside grocery stores have disappeared. Here’s a plan to bring them back.
A local food desert initiative is developing a fund to put grocery stores back on Northside neighborhood blocks.
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Community fridges, gardens sprout in Lafayette’s food deserts
Grocery stores big and small have vacated Lafayette’s urban core. Local organizations are stepping in to fill gaps in the food supply chain and address the central challenge: access at the neighborhood level.
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5/3/22 Council Preview: New council maps; drainage plan update
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below.
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Council Preview: Food trucks rules, $2.4 million for the Heymann Center, consolidation committee extension
Here is a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils.
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11/2 Council Preview: Parish Council moves on more ARPA fund; Lafayette police training update
Here’s a selection of items on the agendas for this week’s meetings of the City and Parish councils. To see the full agendas, check out the links below.
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Bill would expand, restructure North Lafayette Redevelopment Authority
The legislation could make it easier to move blighted properties and redevelop economically beleaguered North Lafayette.
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How not to sell a parking garage
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Sawbriar Brewery and craft beer’s next wave
More and more brewers are choosing to take the microbrewery route, avoiding the pricey startup costs and permitting minefields that plague conventional production breweries. Starting this fall, Sawbriar Brewery will bring the microbrewery concept to Lafayette. The focus is craft, not production.
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