Businesses

Create Your Own Glass Momento

Downtown is home to two glass blowing studios and both offer fun opportunities to blow your own. Sanctuary Glass at 425 Lake Street welcomes you to bring friends or family to create a variety of items. This time of year, pumpkins are  a hit. Go to sanctuaryglassstudio.com and click the green “book a workshop” button […]

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See Yourself Here- Prime Space Available

It didn’t take long for the cool Andress Artist and Entrepreneur Center, 717 Crockett Street, to become a desired business address. The historically-rehabbed space offers equal parts business, art and opportunity to tenants who are curated to provide added value to other tenants. Need a website built? There is an in-house design firm. Need a […]

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Shreveport Aquarium Debuts New Pavilion

We have long believed that the patio and deck behind the Shreveport Aquarium is the  —hands down— prettiest place in the area to hold an event. Now, it is even better. The view of the river and Texas Street bridge has always been beautiful, and soon, with the LED lighting of the bridge, will be […]

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Welcome to New Businesses Downtown!

Welcome to several new businesses that that located downtown! The building that houses Shreve Towne Barber Shop is full after welcoming Hell Bent BarberShop and Artiszen Studio. Hell Bent is a reunion of sorts for Shreve Towne Barber Shop owner Patty Remedies. Jeremy Hurst, the owner of Hell Bent, once worked at Shreve Towne before […]

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Done & Dunn, 709 Texas’ New Life

The morning I called Drayden Dunn, he was at the pediatrician with son Christian, a brand new 1st grader fighting a fever and stomach bug. Wife Brittney Dunn was calling him, too, asking him to come back inside. It was gearing up to be another busy day in the Dunn household. It’s a rare day […]

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Covid Treatment Offered at UrgentEMS

Downtown’s UrgentEMS, our new quick care facility that also offers the FDA-approved Pfizer Covid vaccine and Covid testing, has been approved for Covid monoclodal antibody treatments.  The goal of this therapy is to help prevent hospitalizations, reduce viral loads and lessen symptom severity.  For those seeking a Covid vaccination, the Pfizer shot has been approved […]

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Citizens National Bank Expands Downtown

After a one-two-three punch in which ‘super regional’ banks Chase, Regions and Capital One consolidated and abandoned downtown branches, comes word that Citizens National Bank is expanding their already sizeable presence in Beaird Tower, 330 Marshall St. The ground floor is home to the bank branch and business bankers, the entire 4th floor includes bank […]

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Work Underway on 421 Market St.

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New Small Business Loan Opportunity

Small and local businesses with revenue of less than $3m who employ 50 employees or fewer could be eligible for a new loan opportunity offered by the City of Shreveport, the U.S. Economic Development Administration and a company called TruFund. The revolving loan fund is available for regional businesses in amounts up to $250,000 for […]

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Rhino Hours Extended

Rhino Coffee downtown in the Lofts at 624 has extended their hours to 7 am- 6 pm every day! Owner Andrew Crawford tells us they have been short-handed and there has been some illness that has made for even longer hours for employees, so they decided to close their downtown store at 2 pm for […]

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