If you’re a fan of the cakes, pies and breads at the new Retro Downtown Cafe, your life is about to take a turn for the more caloric and oh-so-delicious. The new Retro Baking Company is just days away from opening its doors at 500 Texas, just across from 318 Nutrition, the Caddo Parish Courthouse […]
Our limited edition ‘I Am Downtown’ pins are officially gone! Over the past few weeks, people from all over Shreveport-Bossier have filled out applications and sent photos of themselves having fun downtown in order to score one of these limited-edition pins. Many of them sent pictures of activities in our free, downloaded Field Guide of […]
Cool comes in all shapes and sizes, and we’re thrilled that there are a number of people downtown who see the value in saving, rehabbing and giving our amazing historic buildings new life. 408 Cotton is about 12,000SF worth of cool, an old garage and car park recently purchased by iArchitecture’s Jeff Spikes. Plans are […]
200 Travis Street, that bright blue nook at the corner of Travis and Spring Street, opens for business Monday, Nov. 11 as Anthony’s Sports Bar. The brainchild of owner Anthony Burns, the sports bar features much more than sports alone. The menu contains a wide array of everything from Southern comfort appetizers (beer- battered onion […]
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 […]
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