An old town of small houses
Lafayette grew as a coal town, and the blocks either side of its main street are still small frame cottages on narrow lots with working alleys. Those Lafayette houses are being renovated steadily, with foundation repairs, additions and full mechanical replacement common on a single project. Because a Lafayette cottage lot has almost no side yard, the unit usually goes in the alley or hard against the garage. Newer subdivisions ring the town, but the renovation work that fills our Lafayette schedule sits in the older grid.
Ground with workings underneath
Coal was mined under much of Lafayette, and subsidence and old shaft locations still shape what can be built and where. A Lafayette foundation repair or underpinning job runs longer than the equivalent work elsewhere, and the unit stays through the whole sequence.
Engineers working a Lafayette site will often want heavy equipment kept to specific ground, and we place units clear of that footprint. Old mine land around Lafayette is also being reclaimed for parks and trails, and those contracts take a unit at the access gate rather than out on the disturbed ground.
Main street events and hard weather
Lafayette closes its main street for festivals and markets through the warm months, and those events want clusters mapped to the closure rather than improvised. A Lafayette festival takes deluxe flushing units at the block ends, an ADA accessible unit per cluster and handwashing stations by the food.
Wind across the open ground east of Lafayette is constant and hail lands most summers with force. Anything standing overnight on an exposed Lafayette lot is anchored, and roofing work here arrives in a rush for weeks after a bad storm. Heavy wet March snow is the other disruption, loading trees and closing the Lafayette side streets for a morning.