His hands folded over a spreadsheet stacked with his slate of infrastructure projects, Tim Nickel stares the magnitude of the I-49 Connector down and invokes the engineer’s limit of feasibility — cost ...

The vacant Plaza building Downtown has become something of a case study for the district’s ongoing conversation about alcohol permitting, bars and urban activity ...

It began with an agreement: Louisiana would provide Bell Helicopter with the funds and provisions to construct a $23.6 million assembly plant at Lafayette Regional Airport, where Bell would eventually begin production of its new 505 Jet Ranger X and create ...

Modern was the common sleek thread woven throughout the selections for the commercial INDesign awards with a slew of winners each showing how forward-thinking design can impact more than what meets the eye ...

While the local economy headed down a slippery slope in 2015, one that has continued into the new year, home sales in Lafayette Parish stayed strong — even increasing slightly from total sales in 2014. Once again, ABiz looks back on the big dollar ...

At a hearing on Jan. 4, ABiz’s parent company, IND Media, was awarded attorney fees and court costs in its ongoing public records dispute with Lafayette City Marshal Brian Pope ...

Plagued by failing asphalt from almost the day it opened to traffic, Chemin Metairie Parkway is now the centerpiece of a lawsuit pitting the parish’s fastest-growing community against one of Lafayette's biggest companies ...

In preparation for an early November meeting with various companies hiring hundreds of workers in the Lake Charles market, Lafayette officials did some digging into unemployment data for the Acadiana region ...

An ambitious project that weds science and tourism is set to further transform Lake Charles’ lakefront ...

Cathi Pavy, ABiz’s inaugural Jillian Johnson Award winner, is fiercely loyal to the Lafayette brand ...