Several new apartment spaces have come up downtown this week, so jump on them quickly if you are interested! The first has a beautiful view the Millennium Mural, and is on the second floor of a two story historic building within easy walking distance to restaurants, shopping, attractions and office buildings. The high ceilings and […]
Downtown is the place to be on Thanksgiving Day (Robinson Film Center, of course!) as well as Black Friday and Small Business Saturday! We have sales, door prizes, special meal deals, and SOOO much fun – from snowflake crafts to live music to Christmas at the aquarium to fireworks lighting up the night. Take a […]
Plans are in the works for two musical heavyweights downtown in 2024. Musical heavyweight James Burton wants to celebrate his 85th birthday with an international guitar festival in downtown Shreveport, August 17-19 at Municipal Auditorium. If you’ve had the chance to attend one of the six festivals or three holiday concerts in the past, you […]
One of the first buildings that anyone sees entering downtown on Spring Street is the office building that sits at the edge of Festival Plaza, 800 Spring Street, Spring Street Plaza. You now have multiple opportunities to either own or lease space in the building that is easy to access and that has a large […]
If you’ve been to Fatty Arbuckle’s in the Red River District lately, you’ve seen trenches dug in the planters at the base of the Texas Street Bridge columns. Those trenches were to run the lines for new lighting which is now in and on. Over the past months, things had gotten very dark in the […]
Time is running out for you to get tickets to an event 150 years in the making- The Merciful Frost Victorian Banquet, the event celebrating the end of Shreveport’s 1873 Yellow Fever epidemic. Tickets to this once-in-a- sesquicentennial banquet are available now and are extremely limited. In the late summer and early fall of 1873 […]
If you’ve seen the work going on in suite 100 in downtown’s Red River District, know that the woman behind it has – quite literally- been here before. Cassandra Pipkins-Johnson, most recently of Cassandra’s Louisiana Kitchen in Houston, Tex., and a restaurant of the same name on Jewella Avenue, also helped set up and run […]
Working on all the things needed downtown is a big job, and we really appreciate the help recently from Heard, McElroy and Vestal, the Shreveport Aquarium, Barksdale Air Force Base and Chimp Haven! The Aquarium pitched in with volunteers on Saturday, Nov. 4 to help clean up the serious overgrowth around the Waddell A-Truss Bridge […]
Before you know it, the holidays will be upon us- as will our gift-giving conundrums. We may have a solution, because we have found that no one can resist: Good Eats. Products that support cool local Mom-and-Pop shops. In those regards, the new and existing items being offered by Fertitta’s Deli at 1124 Fairfield will […]
Tee up, this year we are are giving our downtown #Small and #Local businesses an added holiday push! We have joined in with a small national moving pushing Pink Friday, Nov. 17 – and we’re adding Pink Saturday, Nov. 18, too! Our goal is to encourage you to #ShopSmall first and have some fun doing […]
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