Since then, the company has opened delivery in 18 cities across the southern U. Technology crosses into every industry, from energy to finance, and from healthcare to retail, helping to spark job growth and educational opportunities.
Community leaders see the need to bring 21st-century technology to Lafayette citizens and businesses and to spark job growth and educational opportunities with that technology. We will only use your info to send you awesome content and exclusive deals. Carpe Diem. The Quad. CGI Ribbon Cutting. Creamed spinach, eggplant casserole, smothered cabbage. Dwyer's may be the oldest restaurant in town but not by much. Poor Boy's Riverside Inn began business in as a snowball and sandwich cart, while Don's Seafood and Steakhouse opened as a beer hall in Originally built as a headquarters for numerous oil companies the Heymann Oil Center remains a sort of city within a city in central Lafayette.
Maurice Heymann, a department store mogul, real estate developer, and philanthropist originally from New Orleans opened his eponymous Center to capitalize on Texas and Lake Charles-area oil companies then relocating their production to the Gulf Coast. The Oil Center also included the Petroleum Club , once a private dining space for oil executives, but open to the public since Heymann continued to invest in the area adjoining the Center.
Today, the oil city remains a close-knit community of offices, restaurants, and shops. Domengeaux worked to recruit teachers from Francophone countries and embraced French language immersion instruction at home and abroad.
The Cajundome is a 13,seat arena, convention center, and much-beloved symbol of the Lafayette skyline. In , the Dome was enlarged to include an over 37,square-foot convention center addition. A global-themed, annual music, arts, and food event, Festival International de Louisiane is the largest international music and arts festival in the United States. The following year, festival organizers moved the event to late April, taking advantage of the milder spring weather.
Since then, Festival International has hosted bands from around the world, while placing local musicians in an international context. Today, the five-day festival, spread over downtown-area seven stages, draws upwards of , attendees.
Staffed by 2, volunteers, Festival International remains free and open to the public. An exemplar of the New Urbanism design movement, River Ranch features a centrally located town square, surrounded by walkable streets and sidewalks, dotted with green spaces and lakes, and filled with houses designed in seven major architectural styles.
During the cooler months, River Ranch hosts Saturday morning races and its Rhythms on the River concert series on Thursday evenings. A nonprofit organization functioning as the central cultural hub of eight Acadiana parishes — Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. He described how the city was originally founded as Vermilionville in by a French-speaking Acadian named Jean Mouton, but was renamed in honor of the French general Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, in As you can see, Interstate 49 and Interstate 10 intersect in Lafayette, making it an important transportation center.
For most of its history, Lafayette relied on an agricultural economy, and consequently remained small. However, in the s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the Interstate Highway System to facilitate civilian evacuation in nuclear war. Across the nation, cities close to the new interstates prospered while those located farther away disappeared.
Located at the intersection Interstate 10 and Interstate 49, Lafayette instantly became a hub for the surrounding parishes. Separated from their families in the exodus, the Cajun people found a new home in what was then French Louisiana, mostly in the period from The French language, at least the Cajun version of it, has survived, and if you're an uninformed Yankee -- as we were during a recent visit -- you almost need an interpreter.
Downtown Alive! The downtown renovation includes street widening and various improvement projects that have given storefronts, restaurants and shops a new and attractive look.
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