A Louisiana Army National Guard Readiness Center under construction next to a Lafayette residential neighborhood can be used to store weapons, but they will not be fired on the property, an official wrote in response to questions from two local legislators.
State and local officials broke ground Oct. 8 on construction of a $37.5 million, 83,000-square-foot center in the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s University Research Park.
Most people in Lafayette were surprised to hear the center, which will provide a new home base for the 256th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, will be built on prime real estate leased to the national guard for 55 years at no cost…