Lafayette Parish retail sales down 7 percent in Jan.
When Lafayette's December sales tax numbers came in, there was a
collective sigh of relief. The parish was more than holding on, as
taxable retail sales rose 3 percent in 2008 while some communities
across the country were experiencing major declines.
That local optimism, however, is now clouded by a 7 percent drop in
January sales compared with the same month a year ago — falling from $425
million to $396 million.
So is there reason to be concerned? Not just yet, as there may be more to the January 2009 numbers than meets the eye. Read more analysis of January's sales tax figures in this month's issue of Acadiana Business.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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