The Downtown Day Spa and Barber Shop is up and cutting (and polishing and plucking and trimming). Samoiya and hubby Greg Perkins’ new business at 327 Market Street is open and waiting for you for a variety of feel-good, look-better treatments. Samoiya is handling all the manicures and pedicures and Greg is making sure the […]
Been looking for a site to debut your new food products? The old Sun Furniture building at 1253 Texas Avenue (across from the Shreveport Police Dept. and half a block from the current SporTran terminal) is opening up to outside food vendors. The initial Food Hall is planned to house three or more food vendors […]
Quick, name three great things! 1. Fridays. 2. Dripp Donuts. 3. A Friday with Dripp Donuts! To experience the fun, pop over to Appli-K’s new Brand Experience and Cedar Ridge at 616 Texas Street for a little shopping, free coffee and a delicious Dripp donut. The tasty giveaway starts at 10 am and lasts until […]
Baton Rouge is moving forward in relocating the State Office Building from Fairfield Avenue to 500 Fannin Street in downtown Shreveport. On Wednesday, July 20, the Louisiana Architect Selection Board chose Shreveport architectural, environmental and consulting firm Newman Marchive, Inc. to handle the demolition and abatement phase of the $70m revamp of the building and […]
Qualifying for a variety of local and state-wide elective offices is underway through Friday, July 22. See the latest list here on the Secretary of State’s website. As of Thursday afternoon, six candidates had qualified for Shreveport Mayor including: Tom Arceneaux, Mario Chavez, Melvin Slack, Tracy Mendels, Julius Romano and Lauren Ray Anderson. Multiple candidates […]
After a discussion that went in several directions, the City Council this week opted to preserve the status quo on bar hours throughout the city. Two ordinances, one up for vote on July 12; the other to be voted on July 26, looked to either 1.) leave downtown bar hours at the current 6 am […]
Developer John Cush invited us to take an updated look at the units at 721 1/2 Marshall, the second phase of Ridgeway Square. The first phase in the adjacent 719 Marshall building were five upscale condos that all sold. The top floor of 721 will be three living spaces- two roughly 700-850 SF apartments overlooking […]
A shell of a building adjacent to the Antioch Baptist Church on Texas Avenue is famous in its own right. 1053-55 Texas Avenue housed a former Masonic Hall and the Pla-moor Club. Both of these, and a variety of professional offices there, played a central role in a stretch of buildings important to Black Shreveporters […]
In February of this year, the Texas Street Bridge glowed for the first time in a long time as the newly-named Bakowski Bridge of Lights. The colorful lighting ushered in the latest era of the bridge, taking its place as only one of only a handful of programmable LED-lit bridges in the nation. Several colorful […]
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