The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development is asking the Federal Highway Administration if it could let go of the old Coburn’s building in downtown Lafayette.
The long-abandoned building, located along the railroad tracks at the corner of West Third and Grant streets, was purchased by DOTD in 2009. The property was intended to be converted into a site for on- and off-ramps for the proposed Interstate 49 Connector project.
Subsequent designs relocated the connections, but the property remains in limbo along with its historic brick building…