When someone is looking for a place in Louisiana to live, work or open a business, why not Acadiana? One Acadiana is striving to make that not a question, but rather make the nine-parish region a driving economic force, for the state and beyond.

The organization celebrated its first year of that mission March 2 during an event at the Cajundome Convention Center in Lafayette. One Acadiana, formerly the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, has 1,200 member businesses through the nine parishes that make up Acadiana.

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