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Although the state office has not confirmed any details about a space exploration company moving south of the Intracoastal Waterway, Sen. Bob Hensgens said parish leaders should start preparing for possible changes.
Sen. Hensgens told Abbeville Rotarians and guests at a weekly meeting that SpaceX or Blue Origin might build a large facility south of Pecan Island, near the Gulf of Mexico.
“We need to start thinking now about how to maximize the possibilities and minimize disruptions,” Hensgens said.

Vermilion Parish is due for an economic explosion, the likes of which it has never seen, if rumors of a space exploration company developing here come to fruition.
Brownsville, Texas, is a perfect example of what can happen locally, Sen. Bob Hensgens said this week.
“If anything happens down below the Intracoastal Waterway that happened in Brownsville,” Hensgens told members of the Vermilion Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, “this economy is about to take the biggest boom that it has ever taken.”

KAPLAN - During the city council meeting on Tuesday night, the Kaplan City Council conducted five condemnation hearings and decided to condemn two of those five houses. This means the homeowners have 30 days to tidy up their properties, or the city will bring in a contractor, and the costs will fall on the property owners.
The city council voted to condemn the property on North Herpin Street and West Veterans Memorial Drive.