Acadia’s Foster Site adds national recognition to its development inventory

Acadia Parish’s Foster Site appears on Louisiana’s industrial development inventory with two different kinds of recognition: state site certification and a silver designation in the national REDI Sites program. Louisiana Economic Development included Foster among its silver sites in a June 24, 2026 announcement.

One Acadiana’s September 2, 2025 certification announcement describes 51.71 acres with direct access to U.S. Highway 90 and a location less than a mile from Interstate 10. The regional organization says certification follows a review intended to answer development questions before a company selects a location.

The state site-selection listing, checked September 16, 2026, markets approximately 50 acres and identifies another 80 acres as potential expansion space. The smaller rounded description and the earlier 51.71-acre certification refer to the offered site; the additional acreage is presented separately, not as an already developed industrial footprint.

The listing places the property in Acadia Parish Police Jury Industrial District No. 1 and describes surrounding commercial, medical and agricultural uses. It also provides links to a wetlands delineation report and cultural-resource documents. Their presence offers prospective developers a route to the underlying site studies; it does not itself establish that every possible project would be permitted.

LED’s June release describes REDI as a site-readiness platform operated by the Site Selectors Guild. Its related state initiative is refreshing older certifications with current infrastructure, cost and due-diligence information.

For Acadia Parish, these records document preparation and marketing of a location for potential investment. Neither the certification announcement nor the cited listing identifies a committed operating tenant, a construction start or a realized job count for the Foster Site.