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Airport expansion, First Solar and Delta Biofuel top parish infrastructure and industrial priorities
Summary
The parish outlined airport hangar work, a three-phase West Airport roadway, and major private investments — including First Solar and a sugarcane-based Delta Biofuel plant — that officials say will create hundreds of jobs and require coordinated state and federal funding.
Parish officials devoted much of the State of the Parish address to transportation and industrial infrastructure, saying recent and planned projects will open land for businesses and support hiring.
At the Acadiana Regional Airport, the parish reported completed work on Hangar 88 and described a tri-unit hangar and a larger corporate bulk hangar now in design. The administration said it is pursuing a multi-agency funding package (DOTD Aviation, the FAA, airport authority) for a $2.6 million design and a multi-year construction…
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