Approved: At it zoning meeting on Wednesday, the Metro Council OK’d rezoning the old Tinseltown site off Siegen Lane for Topgolf, a Dallas-based company that operates entertainment-focused driving ranges. Topgolf plans to build a roughly 31,000-square-foot facility on the land at Siegen Lane Marketplace near Interstate 10. The rezoning request allows Topgolf to sell alcohol. The Metro Council also OK’d rezoning land on Greenwell Springs Road, west of Joor Road, for a small shopping center.
Merging: LHC Group, a Lafayette-based home health provider, is merging with Kentucky-based Almost Family Inc. in an all-stock deal, according to a news release. The combined company will have 781 locations in 36 states with more than 31,000 employees and revenue of $1.8 billion. It will continue to trade on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol LHCG. Keith Myers, LHC Group’s current chairman and chief executive officer, will be named chairman and CEO of the combined company, which will be headquartered in Lafayette. Read more.
Sounding off: Leading researchers castigated a federal plan that would use artificial intelligence methods to scrutinize immigrants and visa applicants, saying it is unworkable as written and likely to be “inaccurate and biased” if deployed. The experts, a group of more than 50 computer and data scientists, mathematicians and other specialists in automated decision-making, urged the Department of Homeland Security to abandon the project, dubbed the “Extreme Vetting Initiative.” Read more.
