Looking for some fun this long holiday weekend? Here are a few things to know about! Friday, Sept. 1 ‘Not’ Working Friday at the Andress|| 717 Crockett St. ||2-4pm The folks at the Andress want to give you a pat on the back for making it through a long, tough and HOT summer! You’re invited […]
For $7SF per year, a cool $12,833 per month, the former Arlington Hotel which is now but a shell, can be yours to lease. Sadly, the owners of the building who at one time had intended to turn the property into the highly-anticipated Every Man a King Distillery, have decided that is no longer an […]
One of downtown’s newest businesses wants to help showcase OTHER small businesses with an event called ‘Doing Business in the Park’ on Saturday, October 14 from 10 am- 2 pm. The park is Caddo Common Park in the 800 block of Texas Avenue, which is just across the street from the offices of Xtreme Measures Women […]
The highly-anticipated Uneeda Biscuit Lofts apartments at 709-711 should see first tenants moving in this weekend and we predict the historic rehab will fill quickly. Half of the 32 one-bedroom units, which range in size from 592 to 753SF will be set aside for ‘Artist Housing’ but what does that mean? It means at least […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Christmas in the Sky, rain and intense heat couldn’t stop the return of Quilt Kiosk at the corner of McNeil and Texas Streets downtown, but artist Bruce Allen laughingly admits that they could slow it down. When an SUV crashed into the public art sculpture created by Barbara Abbott, Frances Drew, James Avant, Raymond Davis, […]
If you’ve ever spent time with artist/sign painter Chris Opp, you know you need to move fast because the self-styled ‘Old Schooled Sign Painter’ makes every minute count. Opp, the owner of Artistic Shark, is a one-man band of creativity whose goal is to reinvigorate historic signage and paint murals across America. He and his […]
It has been a whirlwind three years for C&C Mercantile and Lighting owners Lauren Ross Simmons and Derek Simmons. In 2020 YOC (Year of Covid), the couple decided that getting married, having a baby and purchasing a business wasn’t enough. They decided to rehab a rough-looking former furniture store at 1110 Texas Avenue and move […]
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