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 […]
The professional law firm of Cook, Yancey, King and Galloway has decided to extend their lease and make significant upgrades in their space at downtown’s Regions Tower. The 65+ associates and staff members occupy the 16th, 17th and 18th floors of the Class A office building at 333 Texas Street. CYKG President John Kalmbach says […]
Crews at the soon-to-open Phoenix Downtown are working as hard as elves in Santa’s workshop to get the thousand details sorted out by tomorrow evening at 9 pm. December 23rd is the ‘soft’ opening of 400 Commerce Street, the rebirth of the former Phoenix Underground into Phoenix Downtown. For the last few months, the buildout […]
Updated information on the FREE services offered by SporTran Transit in 2022/2023. Original Story- Dec. 9, 2021 Beginning in 2022 and lasting through 2023, if you need to get from Point A to Point B, SporTran will get you there (or close), for free. According to SporTrain, the move to “Zero Fare” ridership was made […]
It’s been a wonderfully weird and mostly fun year for Jim Malsch, the owner of 717 Crockett Street. His rehab of the former Andress Ford into the Andress Artist and Entrepreneur Center was smooth and seamless, made easier with the talented design and construction professionals he had hired to turn the former blighted building into […]
Business in Downtown Shreveport: No Supply Chain Breaks, Port Backlogs or Chip Issues Here! Each day brings more grim news. Shipping containers at west coast ports are unable to offload! Prices for containers have skyrocketed! Manufacturing has slowed to a crawl because of a world-wide shortage of semiconductor microchips! There aren’t enough trucks or drivers! […]
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