Kevin Guillory, the office coordinator for the LEED Center, said the Accelerate Northside program helped create a community of businesses in the area. He said there are plans to provide Accelerate Northside again in the fall, and he said the LEED Center is looking to hold similar programs in all of Acadiana s parishes. There are many people trying to start a business or that have a business idea, and I feel like that program allowed them to see that they were not the only ones, Guillory said. Now, even a few months later, we re still seeing people that are supporting each other s businesses.