“It’s not the name of the store; it’s the development we need to be cognizant of here.” -Keith Hinkley, Councilman District 2 Retroactive nature of ordinance questioned; Public hearing scheduled Feb. 16 A temporary moratorium halting commercial construction in Belle Chasse was unanimously passed by the Plaquemines Parish Council, with a retroactive start date of [...]

Governor Bobby Jindal addressed hundreds of attendants of last week’s 2011 Plaquemines Association of Business and Industry Installation of Officers. Mike Ford was inducted as the 2011 chairman. News lately has focused on the changes Gov. Jindal proposed to make to the higher education system in Louisiana. The governor spoke on this subject. Although Louisiana [...]

Voices from people who do not want a Wal-Mart in their backyard were heard loud and clear by Plaquemines Parish council members and the rest of the community as the impending shopping center was the topic of a SpringWood Estates Homeowners Association meeting last week. This meeting, held on Jan. 18, was the first organized [...]

“We’re working on shutting this large project down,” said Councilman Keith Hinkley, District 2, about the series of ordinances that were introduced at the last Plaquemines Parish Council meeting that would block – or at least temporarily halt – the proposed shopping center in Belle Chasse from moving forward. The shopping center, dubbed “The Belle [...]

Lots of information is circulating about the likelihood of a Wal-Mart being built in Plaquemines Parish, some of which is contradictory, and potentially misleading. Residents were told that there were no final plans for the massive shopping center to be built in Belle Chasse, yet the permit application for construction has been submitted, and the [...]