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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Pop N Pizza is now open at 500 Texas Street just across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse! Downtown’s pizza place is open Monday-Saturday starting at 10am. For right now, early week closing times are 8-ish, Friday and Saturday, Brittani and Trill will be open for the later night crowd, keeping the pizza ovens hot and […]
Each year SB Magazine polls readers to come up with a list of the twin cities’ Best Of. We love our downtown businesses and think they are pretty fabulous but it’s always nice when others recognize that, too. Last week we shared the center city businesses who made the ‘love list’ but we left out […]
1. Covid, Again. Since the outbreak began, many have lost friends or family members to Covid-19. Others know people dealing with the as-yet unexplainable after effects known as Covid Long Haul. The cost in health and lives has been tragically high. To downtown urban centers nationwide, the business effects of the pandemic have been severe, […]
The Petroleum Club of Shreveport traces its origins to a 1948 meeting of oil industry employees. The group, mostly draftsmen, geologists, and engineers, believed working people in the oil industry needed a place downtown where they could enjoy lunch together. The Petroleum Club was formed. The Club’s first five years were spent in the Washington Youree […]
The sale is complete on the 343,543 square foot, 21-story Louisiana Tower at 401 Edwards Street. Real Estate developer R.D. Sharma of Atlanta, Georgia, was the high bidder at $7.5m.; he told the DDA he owns properties in multiple states including George, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, and more recently, Louisiana. Sharma’s plans are to enhance […]
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