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Lake Charles port to build ’employee village’

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LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — The Port of Lake Charles plans an “employee village” that will house up to 4,000 industrial workers on port property.

It’s needed because a $40 billion-plus capital investment boom is expected to add 5,200 new permanent jobs over the next two years and bring in 15,000 temporary construction workers over three to five years, Ian Foster, a partner at Greenfield Logistical Solutions of Louisiana, told the board Monday.

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