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 […]
There are several ways to know that Christmas is coming but one of the most loved has long been the Shreveport Opera Guild’s Les Boutiques de Noel. The shopping experience is the region’s very own holiday market, filled with gifts, stocking stuffers and seasonal goodies. One that recommend that provides a full mouth of delicious […]
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 […]
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