The Remington Suite Hotel and Spa wants downtownies to eat brunch downtown Saturdays and Sundays, and they’re going to make it easier for you to say ‘yes’ with a special ‘Downtown Discount.’ The buffet offerings, which change weekly, are $24.99 to walk-in and hotel guests, and $18.99 for residents of and employees downtown! The buffets […]
Don’t be surprised to see officers ‘walking the beat’ in downtown Shreveport. The Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation (DSDC) are hiring off-duty Shreveport police officers to patrol downtown on random days and times. The foot patrol is not intended to take the place of on-duty officers, but to add more visibility […]
Lena Thomason, former owner of Lena’s Shoe Gallery at 501 Milam Street, passed away the week of March 28, 2022 at the age of 94. Her funeral is planned for Sunday, April 2, at Rose Neath Southside at 2529 Southside Dr., Shreveport. Visitation is planned for noon- 2 pm, services at 2. The family invites […]
If you love history, revel in shared knowledge and love broadening horizons, a position at downtown’s Spring Street Museum at 525 Spring Street may be for you! The museum is looking for a new director. They are seeking someone with a degree in history, archaeology, museum studies or a related field. This is a 40-hour-a-week […]
A wise person once said that good things come in small packages and we couldn’t agree more. One small section of the southern part of downtown awakens each morning to the sounds of hammers and saws, and the package that will eventually be opened here will be a beautiful one, indeed. When you drive into […]
Dozens of pizza, smoothie and small business supporters were on hand this morning to ‘officially’ welcome two of downtown’s newest businesses. The African-American Chamber of Commerce held a joint ribbon cutting for Pop N’ Pizza, 500 Texas Street- and Cookie B’s Smoothies and More, 431 Texas Street. The chamber had a strategic reason to wait to […]
Some bad news for taceaux lovers downtown. Parish Taceaux, the fun little eatery/drinkery at 708 Texas Street, has announced that it will be closing end-of-day on Saturday, March 19. PT Owners William and Jorie O’Brien stepped in to keep the eatery open when the original owner decided to step away. Though running a restaurant was […]
John Cush is one of downtown’s most ardent and eager developers. His Ridgeway Square condo conversion at 721 Marshall Street sold out. He is already fielding calls about his adaptive reuse of the adjoining building at 719 Marshall. The two spacious apartments on the second floor and the commercial/restaurant space on the first promises to […]
In late 2019, in the days just before ‘Covid’ became a household word, the Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation, a non-profit dedicated to encouraging business and revitalizing downtown with a goal of saving our inventory of historic buildings, received the donation of the historic Rubenstein’s Department Store buildings. The Lanford and Rubenstein buildings that comprise 513 […]
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