A resolution approving agreements to lease property near Holy Rosary Institute on which to build a Northeast Regional Library branch was approved by the Lafayette Parish Council.
The council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the resolution and sign the agreements with Holy Rosary Land Holdings, a nonprofit corporation based in New Orleans that is owned and operated by Catholic nuns.
Lafayette Parish wants to lease several acres of land owned by Holy Rosary Land Holdings that are part of the former Holy Rosary Institute property, a school for Black students that closed in 1993 and is undergoing restoration…