Add 10 more bank branches to IberiaBank's ever-expanding presence in the southeast. The bank has taken over CapitalSouth Bank after the Birmingham, Ala., bank failed on Friday. Ten former CapitalSouth branches in Alabama and Florida now bear IberiaBank branding after the Lafayette-based bank squared away a deal with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. over CapitalSouth’s $589 million in assets and $546 million in deposits. The deal now gives IberiaBank 162 branches in 10 states and $6 billion in assets. Based on the Aug. 21 closing stock price, the bank has a market cap of more than $1 billion.
CapitalSouth is the 80th bank to fold this year in the United States. Its failure will cost the FDIC’s insurance fund $151 million.
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.
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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