Downtown’s the Agora Borealis, 421 Lake Street, is celebrating Year #9 of being downtown’s premier art marketplace with a day filled with art, creative inspiration, and activities. When you look at the ‘traditional’ 9th year wedding gift, you see that it is pottery and willow, symbols of molding, shaping and flexibility, a yin and yang. […]
Downtown has a newly-branded company at 107 Spring Street that would like to help you promote your business. The former Certus Direct is now Oddball Branding. The name change, says owner/manager Daniel Petruska was needed because “Certus doesn’t really say what we do.” What Oddball Branding does, and does quite well, is branding using […]
Downtown could be home to yet another fabulous AirBnb in the not-too-distant future. One of the three apartments on the second floor of the City Center Flats building at 427 Crockett Street is almost ready for its close-up. The studio space is elegantly beautiful, situated around the corner from the new Glass Hat Cafe and […]
“It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since we opened,” says The Grove founder and owner Carrie Ann Restel. She remembers the long evenings disassembling pallet boards and painting them white to create walls for her vendor spaces. That was a lot of splinters ago. It was hard for anyone to imagine that […]
Congratulations to the Shreveport Aquarium for being recognized as a KultureCity® certified sensory inclusive venue, which means a greater ability to assist and accommodate visitors who may have sensory needs. Staff at the aquarium will go through annual training on how to recognize those guests with sensory needs and how to handle a sensory overload […]
For years, Jasmine Peoples and her husband commented about the lack of local activities for younger children and families. She has decided to do something about that with a new storefront in the prime real estate of 400 Texas Street. It is a small space with a big heart, a place that you can come […]
The ribbon has been cut and the fancy new upgrades unveiled at the Hilton Shreveport, 104 Market Street. Time has flown, but 17 years ago, downtown’s premier business class hotel first opened its doors. On their 17th anniversary, the team members who have been at the property from the beginning – including current General Manager […]
The area around the Shreveport Aquarium in Riverview Park is filled with flora and fauna, but if you’re not a horticulturist, it all just looks like greenery, birds and bugs. The aquarium’s partnership with ANECA Federal Credit Union hopes to change that. Several nature trail signs have been added in the area just to the […]
Recent Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year winner Latoya Phelps-Amos has located her POWERR Management Group (PMG) to the Regions Tower at 333 Texas Street, downtown. Phelps-Amos is a one-stop shop for Whole Life, Term Life, Short/Long Term Disability, Supplemental Coverage (Accident, Critical Care & Hospital Indemnity), Group Benefits and other products for individuals and businesses. PMG is licensed […]
The Louisiana Legislative Session has ended with a big win for downtowns and the preservation of commercial historic buildings statewide. By overwhelming votes in the House and Senate, the important State Historic Tax Credit (HTC), HB483, was extended until January 1, 2029. The bill was signed into law Wednesday, June 28 by Governor John Bel […]
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