A couple of months ago, the long-time home of the downtown Hallmark card and gift shop at 431 Texas Street reopened to a radical change. Gone were Christmas ornaments, sympathy cards, and aisles tight with small dustables. In was an open and airy updated space flooded in natural light and offering a long list of […]
Adjacent to the Shreveport Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Building and just around the corner from the Lee Hardware Apartments sits this garage and storage building at 408 Cotton Street. It’s 12,000 square feet with a mezzanine, garage doors that lead off the alley and a ramp suitable for cars that leads upstairs. The ceilings are […]
(Reprinted from the Shreveport Times, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019) How much has changed in your life or in the way you think about things over the past 17 years? I’ll answer for you- a lot. In community terms, we have begun to more fully realize the dangers of aggressive annexation and urban sprawl to the […]
A little worried about your moves? Want your youngsters to feel confident on their feet, and enjoy exercising in a way that will not only make them feel better but look better? Brittany Pier says she has just the thing for you- or your children. Brittany, the owner and instructor at popular Be Dance Studio […]
Red River Brewing Co., downtown’s craft beer brewery and gastropub, welcomes a new food vendor to 1200 Marshall. The Smoke House @ Red River Brewing Co. opened Wednesday and debuted their new menu. It’s a little bit of a number of favorites from fresh Caesar Salads and giant burgers to mac n’ cheese with a […]
The timing was great for showing off some of downtown’s historic rehab projects to US Senator Bill Cassidy this week. Cassidy was a driving force in the retention of the Federal (Commercial) Historic Tax Credit in the 2017 Tax Act. That credit, and one offered by the State of Louisiana, have been hugely helpful in […]
The first #loveshreveport Citywide Cleanup was a big event downtown. Nearly 30 downtown teams made up of businesses, non-profits, residents, community organizations and just plain supporters and volunteers hit the streets bright and early Saturday, August 24 to spend a couple of hours sweating to make a difference. Before taking to the sidewalks, alleys, curbs, […]
Riddle me this. What does downtown have in common with an alligator? Before recently, nothing at all. That has now changed with Big Pops Fresh Seafood, soon to be located at the former KCS Cafe building at 830 Louisiana Street. Larry Keith Burt is ‘Big Pops.’ For a time, Larry was known as ‘Pops’ to […]
It seems only natural that with the connection to the Red River and Shreveport Aquarium the water-based creatures of Surfari Pals would find downtown to their liking. Jennifer and Kip Cummings own and manage the 501c3, which recently located at 1010 Marshall Street downtown. They are thrilled to become part of the downtown community and […]
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