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01/25/2012 -
Louisiana Plating & Coatings' decision to follow Halliburton to Lafayette is a good sign more companies are comingBy Gregg Gothreaux Having an...
01/17/2012 -
By Richard Burgess and Skip DescantThe AdvocateA Houston company that makes protective coatings for oilfield equipment is opening a plant in Scott...
01/12/2012 -
Houston Plating and Coating CEO William Howard, center, speaks after Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, right, announced that Houston Plating and...
01/12/2012 -
Written by Heather MillerThe Independent WeeklyLouisiana Plating and Coatings, a newly formed subsidiary of Houston Plating and Coatings, is building...
10/27/2011 -
Written by Leslie Turk Independent WeeklyThursday, 27 October 2011 Using Census data, USA Today ranked...
09/19/2011 -
Lafayette got some good news last week when it was listed among the top 15 cities with the fastest economic growth. The list was compiled by the...
08/08/2011 -
Shoot Online www.shootonline.com August 8, 2011 Additional Production Space Aids Company's Ability to Spearhead Global Film Projects...
07/21/2011 -
The assignment: Start in New York City and wind up in Los Angeles, exploring the best of small-town America along the way.Three weeks and 25,000...
07/21/2011 -
Amanda McElfresh amcelfresh@theadvertiser.com In what is being labeled as a historic announcement in the Acadiana business world, Schumacher...
07/21/2011 -
Written by: Leslie Turk Thursday, 21 July 2011 Gov. Bobby Jindal joined Schumacher Group CEO Dr. William “Kip” Schumacher...
04/25/2011 -
Lafayette recognized for economic development efforts and digital media development Lafayette, LA –Southern Business and Development...
04/06/2011 -
The Advocate Online www.2theadvocate.com Halliburton picks Lafayette Jindal: 500 jobs to be created By MARSHA SILLS LAFAYETTE - More than 500 new...
04/06/2011 -
The Lafayette Daily Advertiser Online www.theadvertiser.com Halliburton to build $65M plant in parish2:27 AM, Apr. 6, 2011Halliburton, one of the...
04/05/2011 -
The Independent Weekly Online www.ind.com North Lafayette lands $65 million Halliburton expansionWritten by: Leslie Turk Tuesday, 05 April 2011...
04/05/2011 -
The Associated Press State & Local Wire Halliburton to build components plant at LafayetteApril 5, 2011 Tuesday 8:31 PM GMT Halliburton Co. said...
04/05/2011 -
The Town Talk Online www.thetowntalk.comHalliburton to build $65 million manufacturing facility in Lafayette3:09 PM, Apr. 5, 2011Halliburton will...
03/26/2011 -
The Lafayette Daily Advertiser www.theadvertiser.com March 26, 2011La. economy is looking upBy Connie Lewis11:00 PM, Mar. 26, 2011 The rate of...
03/23/2011 -
Lafayette, LA The Independent online www.theind.com Mar 23, 2011Cool Town Lafayette's creative class weighs in on what makes us a vibrant communityBy...
03/20/2011 -
The Advocate Online www.2theadvocate.com March 20, 2011 Lafayette bank poised to become largest based in Louisiana By Ted GriggsTen years ago,...
03/17/2011 -
The Advertiser Online www.theadvertiser.com March 17, 2011La. economy on riseBy Connie LewisMidSouth Bank President and CEO Rusty Cloutier predicts...
03/11/2011 -
Written by: Leslie Turk Friday, 11 March 2011 The Lafayette metro gained 2,700 jobs in the past year, many of those coming from the oil...
03/01/2011 -
Lafayette, LA— Officials from Goldin Metals, Inc., a distributor and manufacturer of metal building components, have announced the opening of a...
02/25/2011 -
Written by: Independent Weekly Staff Friday, 25 February 2011 Economist Loren Scott, who left us scratching our collective head when he predicted in...
02/07/2011 -
Lafayette, LA— On March 15, 2011 LEDA will host 1stGear— the inaugural session of the Opportunity Machine (OM) and the Louisiana Small...
01/20/2011 -
Dozens of companies have announced expansions or relocations along the corridor in the past two years, launching projects that will create thousands...
12/01/2010 -
Opportunity Machine, a new business accelerator spearheaded by LEDA and LITE, hopes to enable the next generation of technology-inspired...
10/14/2010 -
UL's business master's program is one of the best in the nation, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company...
09/03/2010 -
Written by Nathan Stubbs Friday, 03 September 2010 The Lafayette Economic Development Authority has hired its first executive director...
08/26/2010 -
by Cody Daigle • cdaigle@theadvertiser.com • August 26, 2010 Let’s start with the bad news — I have some friends who have lost...
08/25/2010 -
Amanda McElfresh • amcelfresh@theadvertiser.com • August 25, 2010 Six Lafayette-based businesses were named Tuesday to the fourth annual...
04/22/2010 -
Jeff Moore • jeffmoore@theadvertiser.com • April 22, 2010 Lafayette has made its pitch to serve as a launching pad for Google's high-speed...
04/20/2010 -
Sarah Lai Stirland, Special Correspondent, BroadbandBreakfast.comLAFAYETTE, La., April 20, 2010 - To the extent that the city of Lafayette is famous...
04/18/2010 -
Jeff Moorejeffmoore@theadvertiser.com It used to take Golfballs.com an hour and 31 minutes to upload one of its high-definition product demo videos...
04/07/2010 -
Corridor Weekly www.1012corridor.com After only four months in operation in Louisiana, Pixel Magic...
04/05/2010 -
Tina Marie Macias • tmacias@theadvertiser.com The amount of money UL has attracted through research initiatives has more than tripled...
04/03/2010 -
Pixel Magic will hire up to 100 artists during the next year to staff its digital effects studio at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise...
04/02/2010 -
From staff reports • April 2, 2010 www.theadvertiser.comThe city of Lafayette has won the Cleanest City contest for District III, Category J,...
03/31/2010 -
Written by The Independent StaffLafayette is in danger of turning into Grosse Tete. With all the ego stroking we’ve been getting thanks to our...
03/31/2010 -
Amanda McElfreshamcelfresh@theadvertiser.comLafayette's cutting-edge technology and its use in one local high school are helping the city gain...
03/26/2010 -
Written by The Independent Staff Lafayette will soon be the most wired city in the world, and our municipally-owned fiber optic network is...
03/19/2010 -
From the Baton Rouge Business Report Lafayette was one of nine U.S. cities to report an increase in construction employment in January from a...
11/11/2009 -
Jeff Moore • jeffmoore@theadvertiser.com Lafayette has cracked the top 10 in a national list that rates cities on job and income...
11/07/2009 -
Amanda McElfreshamcelfresh@theadvertiser.com Claudia B. Laws/claws@theadvertiser.com Pixel Magic Vice President Ray Scalice talks...
11/06/2009 -
By Nathan Stubbs Pixel Magic, a leading 3D graphics and animation firm that works with top Hollywood film studios, is opening its...
10/29/2009 -
By Marsha SillsCARENCRO, La. — High-speed fiber optic technology offers a new frontier in computing. Among the explorers: students at Carencro...
10/21/2009 -
Lafayette, LA— Officials from ATC Associates, an environmental consulting firm, have announced the opening of their corporate...
09/23/2009 -
LAFAYETTE - Local officials announced to the city and the world via the Web on Tuesday the creation of a technology business lab aimed at incubating,...
10/10/2008 -
By Nathan Stubbs Wednesday, September 10, 2008The Independent Weekly Lafayette has moved up 10 spots to rank 14th in the...
09/10/2008 -
With the opening of a $120 million, 70,000 square foot facility located in LEDA’s Northpark Technology Center, FlightSafety International...
07/28/2008 -
A partnership between the city of Youngsville, the Lafayette Parish School Board and the Lafayette Economic Development Authority has something for...
07/28/2008 -
The public is invited to attend LITE’s August Open House any time between 3:00pm and 6:00pm on Wednesday, August 6. Several new projects...
06/27/2008 -
By Mary Tutwiler Friday, June 27, 2008 Photo: a scene from...
11/01/2007 -
Lafayette, LA— The 2006-07 fiscal year marked the highest total construction valuation in Lafayette’s history. At $493,768,778, the...
09/26/2007 -
Lafayette, LA– The Lafayette MSA is ranked 24th out of 200 metro areas in the Best Cities Index, compiled annually by the Milken Institute....
09/24/2007 -
LA GUARDIA AIRPORT, NEW YORK (September 24, 2007) - FlightSafety International announced today that it is significantly increasing its support of the...
08/13/2007 -
Foreign Direct Investment magazine (fDi), a London-based publication, named Lafayette in its North American Cities of the Future issue (April/May...
08/13/2007 -
07/24/2007 -
Lafayette, LA—The Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE™), one of the most comprehensive and tightly integrated data...
05/08/2007 -
Lafayette, LA–With two months left in the state fiscal year, Acadiana businesses will receive more Incumbent Worker Training Program grants for...
04/19/2007 -
Lafayette, LA - The creative class is on the rise in Lafayette. Citing Lafayette’s “wildcatter mentality” and entrepreneurial...
02/14/2007 -
T-shirts, hamburgers, hotel rooms, dinette sets. No matter what a business was selling in Lafayette in 2006, someone wanted to buy it. Retail sales...
01/22/2007 -
Four months after its official grand opening, Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise, LITE, launches its monthly open house program for tours...
01/13/2007 -
Ill winds blew thousands of jobs Baton Rouge's way in the past year-and-a-half, but no Louisiana city has benefited from post-hurricane job growth...
12/14/2006 -
Orlando, FL – LEDA's marketing efforts for Lafayette Parish were recognized at the Southern Economic Development Council's (SEDC) Annual Conference...
09/27/2006 -
If a 15-foot storm surge washes over parts of New Orleans, experts can predict how high water will rise, how long it would take to pump water out and...
09/21/2006 -
The state's $27 million investment in the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise center will pay dividends well into the future, Gov. Kathleen...
08/07/2006 -
(St. Catharines, Ontario): NuComm International, Canada's leader in outsourced contact center solutions, has chosen Lafayette, Louisiana as the site...
07/15/2006 -
The LITE center glows violet blue Tuesday night. The grand opening for the center has been scheduled for Aug. 14.
The grand opening of the...
06/07/2006 -
Lafayette is No. 6 on Worldwide ERC's list of best relocation sites for families among the nation's mid-sized metro areas.
The moving company...
06/05/2006 -
Home Furniture Company recently purchased Auto Zone's 440,000-square-foot building in LEDA's Northpark Technology Park, but its Surrey Street store...
05/22/2006 -
(Lafayette) – GAMECAMP!, a career and college preparatory summer intensive program returns to Lafayette. The week-long camp will be held...
05/10/2006 -
When Congress passed the Gulf Opportunity Zone Act sponsored by Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott late last year, it aimed to help victims of hurricanes...
03/15/2006 -
Since the groundbreaking ceremony last April for the Louisiana Immersion Technology Enterprise, or LITE, construction has proceeded on a building...
03/01/2006 -
It's been six months since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. From the devastation emerged stories of strength, survival and courage. Many of...
02/21/2006 -
The giant, nationwide network infrastructure -- known as National LambdaRail -- came online Monday with its more than 15,000 miles of fiber-optic...
02/01/2006 -
Thomas Settles came to Lafayette with a purpose. Settles, president and CEO of Omega Paving based in Atlanta, is looking to set up a satellite office...
01/31/2006 -
Construction is under way on the $27.5 million Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise building located at the corner of Cajundome Boulevard and...
12/31/1969 -
Halliburton plans manufacturing facility in LafayetteExcerpt from 10/12 Corridor Weekly e-newsletter www.1012corridor.comHalliburton is building a...
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