Grow NELA launches an interactive tool to map parish-by-parish economic trends

The platform tracks sales tax data across Northeast Louisiana, highlighting massive revenue spikes linked to Meta's Hyperion facility.

By: Sergy Odiduro

Outlets: Technical.ly

Published: September 15, 2026

Words: 940

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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Northeast Louisiana has a new economic growth dashboard, and its key metric is hiding in plain sight: sales tax collections.

Grow NELA’s new NELA Growth tool turns those numbers into interactive, parish-by-parish data, giving the region a new way to track its economic growth quarter by quarter.

The nonprofit, which aims to drive economic growth in the region, created the site after tapping Michael Crenshaw of Monroe-based Crenshaw Analytics. It sought …

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