Day: August 24, 2023

Want to Work Downtown?

Looking for a new gig? We’d love to have you become part of our ‘family’. A number of downtown businesses have positions they are looking to fill, from the City of Shreveport at 505 Travis Street, to an interesting upcoming position at Visit Shreveport-Bossier (VSB), the convention and tourist bureau. VSB is creating a new […]

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Yellow Fever 150th Commemoration Plans

One of the buildings that was around during the horror of Shreveport’s 1873 Yellow Fever Epidemic was the setting for the press event officially announcing the Yellow Fever 150 Year Commemoration this week. In the 1870’s, the current Spring Street Museum at 525 Spring Street was a bank. Today, it survives to help tell the […]

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From Lawnmowers to Lofts: The Story of Ogilvie

In the sometimes hoitey-toitey world of historic preservation, “Adaptive Reuse” is tossed about like so many festival Frisbees. It pretty much means what it says…an old building is adapted to another current use to make it useful again. As cool and unique as historic buildings are, they are of little use sitting vacant. Too many […]

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