Got a favorite business downtown? Here’s your wrap-up of changing hours heading into summer’s blessed end. Downtown’s favorite gathering space for coffee and chat, Rhino Coffee at 624 Texas Street, has gotten its AC repaired and hours are now 7 am-5 pm. Pending hiring of additional staff, hours could be extended further. Rhino is open […]
If you have been searching for a new home for your retail space, service business or business offices, we have some prime candidates in a variety of sizes and prices. The only similarities are that all are in equally wonderful historic rehabs in easily accessible and high-profile locations, and yes, you will love being downtown. […]
A turnkey restaurant space is currently available in the heart of the Central Business District at 605 Texas Street. The space, which was most recently home to Shababy’s Cajun Cooking, was sadly vacated after medical issues forced Shababy’s popular Mandy and husband and helper Mike to slow down and take a breath. (We wish them […]
Downtown’s the Agora Borealis, 421 Lake Street, is celebrating Year #9 of being downtown’s premier art marketplace with a day filled with art, creative inspiration, and activities. When you look at the ‘traditional’ 9th year wedding gift, you see that it is pottery and willow, symbols of molding, shaping and flexibility, a yin and yang. […]
Downtown has a newly-branded company at 107 Spring Street that would like to help you promote your business. The former Certus Direct is now Oddball Branding. The name change, says owner/manager Daniel Petruska was needed because “Certus doesn’t really say what we do.” What Oddball Branding does, and does quite well, is branding using […]
Downtown could be home to yet another fabulous AirBnb in the not-too-distant future. One of the three apartments on the second floor of the City Center Flats building at 427 Crockett Street is almost ready for its close-up. The studio space is elegantly beautiful, situated around the corner from the new Glass Hat Cafe and […]
“It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly a year since we opened,” says The Grove founder and owner Carrie Ann Restel. She remembers the long evenings disassembling pallet boards and painting them white to create walls for her vendor spaces. That was a lot of splinters ago. It was hard for anyone to imagine that […]
Congratulations to the Shreveport Aquarium for being recognized as a KultureCity® certified sensory inclusive venue, which means a greater ability to assist and accommodate visitors who may have sensory needs. Staff at the aquarium will go through annual training on how to recognize those guests with sensory needs and how to handle a sensory overload […]
For years, Jasmine Peoples and her husband commented about the lack of local activities for younger children and families. She has decided to do something about that with a new storefront in the prime real estate of 400 Texas Street. It is a small space with a big heart, a place that you can come […]
The ribbon has been cut and the fancy new upgrades unveiled at the Hilton Shreveport, 104 Market Street. Time has flown, but 17 years ago, downtown’s premier business class hotel first opened its doors. On their 17th anniversary, the team members who have been at the property from the beginning – including current General Manager […]
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