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Anticipating a surge of workers next year because of the construction of SpaceX in South Vermilion Parish, the Police Jury has started planning for the arrival of hundreds of workers and their campers, who may call the parish home for two to three years or more.
On Tuesday, Gov. Jeff Landry is expected to make the annoucement that SpaceX will be building a billion-dollar facility in South Vermilion Parish, near the Gulf of Mexico. He will be in Abbeville to make that annoucement.

Get ready, because after Tuesday, Vermilion Parish will shed its quiet, rural reputation and step onto the world stage. By noon, this little-known corner of Louisiana will capture international headlines as Gov. Jeff Landry will announce the building a multibillion-dollar space facility just south of Pecan Island.

Rumors alone have stirred unease in Vermilion Parish, where locals are already anxious about what the future might bring to their corner of South Louisiana.

For months, and some say even years, speculation has swirled about a space exploration company eyeing the Gulf of Mexico, just a stone’s throw south of Pecan Island.