iLandMan gives UL students a taste of the industry
Students of UL Lafayette’s Professional Land and Resource Management program last month got a taste of the software offerings of iLandMan, a lease acquisition and land management software company based in Lafayette.
In February, iLandMan co-founder and Vice President Richard Hines, a 30-year veteran of the industry, led two classes for the students of UL’s PLRM program, according to a press release issued by the company.
According to the release, Hines was approached by course administrator Buster LeBlanc to share his experiences in land work, how the industry began and has evolved, where it is today, and changes he sees for the future of the industry. Students were also given the opportunity to view and train on iLandMan’s tract-based online land management system by entering data and reviewing mapping images and rules.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.