The mixture that makes St. Francisville and West Feliciana Parish the unique place it is, today contains a very diverse business community. Among quaint nationally significant historic home sites, an active arts community, hotels and B&Bs, restaurants and other retail establishments, the area sports some of the largest employers in the region.

Safe nuclear energy production, pulp and paper manufacturing, education and medical enterprises provide again, for a unique mixture. Our area's access to water, rail and roadway transportation and the proximity of one of the largest industrial and retail corridors in the United States and one of the top 3 seaports in the world make service, support and distribution opportunities real.

Starting, expanding or relocating a business in the greater St. Francisville Area should be particularly interesting to you if you are looking for the following:

• Local Opportunities (Businesses based in St. Francisville and providing products/services to residents and non-residents)
• Growing Eco-Tourism Opportunities
• Growing Retail Opportunities of Many Varieties
• Growing "Boutique" Service and Product Opportunities
• Proximity Opportunities (Business based in St. Francisville providing supply chain services to other business (B2B) in proximity to St. Francisville)
• Supply Chain Opportunities (service, supply, distribution) involving large multi-national manufacturers as customers (ExxonMobil, Shell Oil, General Motors among others)
• Supply Chain Opportunities (service, supply, distribution) involving the Unites States government as customers (Fort Polk - Largest Army base in the United States, Naval Research Center in New Orleans, State and Federal Prisons among others)
• Supply Chain Opportunities (service, supply, distribution) for large campuses as customers (Academic - LSU, Southern University, Southeastern University, University of Louisiana Lafayette among others)(Medical - Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Baton Rouge General, Pennington Biomedical Research Facility, Oschner, Tenant among others)
• General proximity for retail distribution opportunities