Seven Weeks. 13 Restaurants. 700 lunches. The first couple of weeks of the DDA’s Lunch on Us, DDA staff had tickets left over and tried several times to stop people on the street and give them a $10 lunch coupon- to no avail. By the final weeks of Lunch on Us, all 100 of the […]
It’s the week before Christmas and all through the house at 431 Crockett Street creatures have been stirring – paint, that is- and climbing ladders and painting. Boy, have they been painting. “Yesterday I spent 16 hours painting,” said a weary-looking Chris Rhodes, one of the owners of the soon-to-open Crockett Street Trading Company. “We […]
We are one step closer to getting some additional color and greenery onto downtown sidewalks. If you’re not a gardener, you might not realize that all plant growing material isn’t created equally. The requirements for the wick-watered Earthplanter pots that are going to be deployed downtown is a peat-based medium, and the recommended brand is […]
[box]CITY OF SHREVEPORT OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS OLLIE S. TYLER, MAYOR AFRICA PRICE, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS Press Release ______________________________________________________________________________ March 3, 2015 Lake Street to close for two years beginning Friday Drivers may need to take an alternate route starting Friday if Lake Street is within their travels. Lake Street […]
In the past two years, the number of downtown murals has grown by leaps and bounds and many of the painted murals have felt the brush of artist Ka’Davien Baylor. Ka’Davien, ‘KD’ to friends, first popped back on the Shreveport art scene in 2020 with a mural at 1533 Marshall Street called Leaders of Tomorrow, […]
Monday, Dec. 11 was a good day for Shreveport with back-to-back press events unveiling grant dollars being deployed for downtown. Centerpoint Energy Foundation and Sam Walters, the CenterPoint Energy North Louisiana District Manager, were on hand to give a ceremonial check, but a very real $30,000 to the Shreveport Regional Arts Council (SRAC). SRAC Executive […]
Forte and Tablada, a Louisiana based engineering, surveying and advanced technology firm with branches in Baton Rouge, Denham Springs and Shreveport has purchased 1010 Marshall Street for their new regional office. Jordan Pearson, Sr. VP of North LA and Shareholder of Forte and Tablada is excited that the North Louisiana office is relocating from the […]
After years of sitting mostly quiet, lights, camera and action will soon be returning to the former Millennium Studios at 300 Douglas Street in downtown Shreveport. On Tuesday, December 12, the Shreveport City Council unanimously passed an ordinance approving a lease for Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit (his TV and Film business). Beginning Jan. 1, […]
It was a contest with a purpose and ten locals took Shreveport Common Inc. up on the quest. The real-world mission was to take the currently vacant and lightly-loved 959 Texas Avenue and re-imagine it as something more, to come up with a use to create vibrancy and interest and -hopefully- pay the bills on […]
There’s always that one ( or two, or ten) people on your holiday shopping list that are problematic. You know ‘that’ person. He has everything and what he wants, he buys. She wants nothing, and only likes specific colors, scents, styles. Fret no more. We have discovered yet again during our Lunch on Us lunch […]
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