Robinson Film Center has a big week in store and the beauty is, all their activities are rain or shine! Coming off a great inaugural Latino Film Festival (Festival De Cine), downtown’s theater is transitioning into what will likely be the next box office hit, Air, starring old friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The […]
The street signage honoring downtown businesswomen Roberta Minor and Elgin Hill went up this past weekend to the delight on the family and friends on hand. Ms. Minor and Ms. Hill were owners of R & E Beauty Shop at 1232 and later 1233 Milam Street, but beauty wasn’t their only business. They were honored […]
Officials from the local Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD) brief the Shreveport City Council on a big and needed project- upcoming repairs to Interstate 20 throughout Shreveport and Bossier City. Though their Public Information Officer Erin Buchanan stresses this is all preliminary until the contracts are issued, the total rehab/patching project will stretch […]
Another week and more welcomes! Love the taste of seafood, Creole and Cajun and home-smoked BBQ? Trap Krabz says you can get all that you crave in one place; their new downtown restaurant at 601 Texas Street. The new eatery opened quietly a week ago and is now ready to serve you every day except […]
One of the most desirable addresses downtown is the Lofts at 624 at the corner of Louisiana Ave. and Texas Street. The manager called this week to let us know about two rare availabilities that have come open there; a 2 bedroom 1.5 bath, & a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath. For the rest of the […]
After our story last week about the changes at 1200 Marshall Street we wanted to share the latest look with you! This photo is of the front, uncovered for the first time in years. We like it! If you drive Marshall Street, you are likely struck by two things: work taking place at the 1200 […]
How is the City of Shreveport doing? That’s a big topic, and the answers depends on who you ask. In terms of how the city is doing financially, a lot of questions were answered with publicly accessible (though sometimes hard to get) data, and graphics compiled by an Asheville, North Carolina company called Urban3 this […]
UPDATE: Robinson Film Center will be hosting a showing of the movie The Secret Garden on Thursday, March 23 at 1:30. Tickets are $6.50 to $8.50. Here’s the ‘buzz’- Artspace, 708 Texas Street, is normally the place for visual and performance art exhibits- the more traditional paintings, sculptures and poetry. Not so on March 22 […]
Some of the streets in downtown Shreveport, like most of the 400-800 blocks of Crockett, don’t have sidewalks that are wide enough for tree wells. (These streets were not part of the city’s ‘Streetscape’ re-do in the 1990s that widened a number of Central Business District sidewalks). That left architect Jason Cram with a quandary […]
A building in the heart of Texas Street has come on the market. 611 Texas Street, the ‘All Seasons Creations Mall’, is for sale by owner for a listed $250,000. The century-old building is roughly 7,680 SF and features a ground floor, mezzanine and full second floor. 611 Texas features expansive open space with no […]
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