Increased Parking Rates Causing Problems for Downtown Businesses
TONIGHT. SOME DOWNTOWN BUSINESS OWNERS ARE TAKING A STAND AGAINST CHANGES TO PARKING RULES IN DOWNTOWN LAFAYETTE.
and last updated 2021-01-19 20:12:22-05
LAFAYETTE â An increase in parking rates along the streets of downtown Lafayette is catching many local businesses off guard.
In effect on Tuesday, parking rates have gone up from fifty cents per hour to one dollar per hour. I think that s ridiculous, says Robin McMillan, worker at Creative Spaces Gallery in Downtown. Times are hard enough right now, we don t need to be going up on other stuff to cost people more money.
Nine-year test for corrosion protection proves benefit of ConmicShield® additive in concrete.
For precast manhole producers in Louisiana, corrosion prevention is a major consideration. In today’s depressed economy, cities are forced to stretch their budgets and select the most cost-effective products. This means selecting products with the longest performance for the least cost! The concrete industry is forced more and more frequently to compete with alternative products such as plastic and fiberglass and these producers emphasize the susceptibility to corrosion of unprotected concrete in sanitary sewer environments. In fact, these producers commonly encourage wastewater design engineers to specify expensive coating and plastic linings for concrete pipe and manholes in order to force higher, non-competitive prices for concrete pipe and manholes. Such was the case in Louisiana until precast producers discovered the benefits of adding the ConmicShield® into their concrete mix at t