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Tax dollars in Ascension industrial zone to go toward road work to relieve traffic backups

Por: The Advocate Business September 17, 2022

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Ascension Parish has established a new district that would divert tax revenue from new and expanding industry to improve roads in the parish's east bank industrial corridor along the Mississippi River.Even as projects in neighboring St. James run into legal and regulatory hurdles spurred by environmental and community groups, Ascension's already sizeable industrial zone in Geismar has been tabbed for several billion dollars in... + full article



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