New food and beverage incubator to be built in Avondale [Video]

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -Jefferson Parish leaders are working on a new building to help small businesses grow.

It’s called a food incubator, and parish leaders believe it will help the parish in the long run.

Its planned location is in Avondale at the Churchill Technology and Business Park.

Once complete, small businesses focused on food and drink can rent space in the 15,000-square-foot building.

“Once you get to a certain stage in your business, you may need a little more room, a little more space,” says Southern Fixings owner Natasha Jones.

She specializes in pralines and uses a building like the one planned in St. Charles Parish. However, Hurricane Ida damaged the building beyond repair in 2021.

Jones says she is excited about the new building in Jefferson Parish.

“We make pralines so we needed a kettle, not a regular stovetop because of the amount of pralines we have to …