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Welcome Realtors!

The Lafayette Economic Development Authority (LEDA) works very closely with the Acadiana commercial real estate community. We value the impact and insight the agents have on the area and provide services to assist in their efforts.

Register with LEDA to be notified of upcoming projects, new services, and to receive requests for properties by emailing our Business Development Department. Don't forget about our Researchers in the Information Services department who are ready and willing and to tailor any data to fill your specific request by providing you with the following information:

Demographic Reports - NEW! 2008 REPORTS AVAILABLE!
Traffic Counts
Aerial Photography
Mapping
Competitor Data

Email us

Please keep in touch and let us know how LEDA can Work for You!

Property Marketing

LEDA provides information on available properties in the area. We enable clients to browse our commercial properties for their expansion or new business venture. Our database is populated with properties presented to us by you, the commercial real estate agent.

This system allows us to respond to our clients' requests in a timely manner, and assist you in marketing your listing. As a courtesy, we create a marketing flyer for each property submitted. That flyer will then be provided to you - complete with a photograph of the site (or aerial view), an aerial photo, and a relational map to show where the site is in the parish. Each property flyer will contain your contact information so prospective buyers can contact you directly.

LEDA is constantly taking your information and preparing marketing pieces on the sites that you provide to us for any possible projects or companies that are looking to locate within Lafayette Parish. Our Business Development Team works closely with the Acadiana Economic Development Council, who also documents and prepares the information that you deliver for properties that are outside of Lafayette but within the six parish region of Acadiana. Together, we will soon have access to view and add your sites to a new Property Database that will be utilized by Louisiana Economic Development. This means great efforts will be taken in order to market the properties you are representing in local, regional, and state initiatives. LEDA and AEDC are excited about having the opportunity to continue to be the conduit between your work and the state's efforts.

What's Happening Now!

Available Properties Database: It's time to UPDATE!

Realtor/Developer Seminar Update: Spring 2008

International Council of Shopping Centers: RECON 2008

Our Business Development Department would like to be sure that we have the most up-to-date information on each of the sites that are within our database of available properties. Our current database has been used for the past three years and is now populated with many inactive listings that we will need to remove in order to maintain efficiency.

Please try to let us know if any of your listings are no longer available by emailing Elizabeth De Castro at Elizabethd@lafayette.org, or you can submit your new property listings through the Realtor Portal on our website.This web-based application will populate a new database which will be the only system that our Business Development Team will use as of March 15, 2008. We ask that you please be sure to have all of your properties entered through the website by this date.

Thank you for your help!

On behalf of the Business Development Team of LEDA, I would like to invite you to our Spring 2008 Commercial Realtor and Developer Update to be held on April 16th from 9:00am to 11:00 am in the LEDA Resource Center.

The theme of this brief meeting is Future Development and your group will be the first to view the NEW L3 Presentation that discusses the Target Markets for Future Development in Lafayette Parish. During this meeting, we would also like to take the opportunity to go over some of the most recent changes in our Property Database and Location Management services.

Please send your RSVP by April 15th to David Colligan via email at DavidC@lafayette.org.

Download the L3 Presentation here!

Many of you are currently in the process of preparing for your trip to Las Vegas in order to attend the ICSC tradeshow for retail and property development. If you will be on the show floors or in a meeting with developers or retail agents, please know that Gregg Gothreaux and David Colligan will be available to assist you in being an ambassador of Lafayette and the Acadiana market.

Please be sure to contact David Colligan in order to be able to schedule any meetings in advance or to get contact information, in the event you should schedule a meeting and need assistance on the spot.

Also, be sure to request or download some of the marketing tools from the LEDA website that you will be able to use when speaking to developers at the expo:

The Lafayette Parish Economic Profile
The Retail One-Page
Lafayette Works for Me Marketing Pieces