If you’ve ever spent time with artist/sign painter Chris Opp, you know you need to move fast because the self-styled ‘Old Schooled Sign Painter’ makes every minute count. Opp, the owner of Artistic Shark, is a one-man band of creativity whose goal is to reinvigorate historic signage and paint murals across America. He and his […]
The 70+ new trees that have been planted downtown over the past couple of months all seem to be budding out and are already making a big difference in the streetscape, so now we are on to even more! Ditto for the dead shrubs on either side of the Texas Street Bridge. They have also […]
Officials from the local Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LaDOTD) brief the Shreveport City Council on a big and needed project- upcoming repairs to Interstate 20 throughout Shreveport and Bossier City. Though their Public Information Officer Erin Buchanan stresses this is all preliminary until the contracts are issued, the total rehab/patching project will stretch […]
How is the City of Shreveport doing? That’s a big topic, and the answers depends on who you ask. In terms of how the city is doing financially, a lot of questions were answered with publicly accessible (though sometimes hard to get) data, and graphics compiled by an Asheville, North Carolina company called Urban3 this […]
Some of the streets in downtown Shreveport, like most of the 400-800 blocks of Crockett, don’t have sidewalks that are wide enough for tree wells. (These streets were not part of the city’s ‘Streetscape’ re-do in the 1990s that widened a number of Central Business District sidewalks). That left architect Jason Cram with a quandary […]
How happy can new trees make you? Well, if you’re us, really, really, really happy! Over the past couple of months, our can-do crew from Mike’s Stump Grinding have been cutting down dead and dying trees, digging up stumps and roots, prepping the tree wells for new trees, and now, planting 77 new Red Maple, […]
You may have heard that the iconic Arsenal Hill power plant smokestacks are on their way down. According to the Shreveport Times, the 275 foot smokestacks that are visible just to the north of downtown, will be completely dismantled by later this fall. Read Smokestacks Coming Down- Shreveport Times The smokestacks are a part […]
Some people are thrilled over diamonds and pearls, some, a fancy new car. We, on the other hand, absolutely love infrastructure improvements! In November of 2021, District B councilwoman LeVette Fuller was quick to respond to the DDA’s request for a small amount of money to do some much needed repairs and improvements. Our belief […]
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On Friday, May 7, ShrevePark Parking Patrollers will be bagging the meters on the westbound lane (north side of street in front of Lofts) at 4:30 pm for no parking. Saturday morning beginning at 6 am, a large crane will be moving in to do some work on the Southern University Metro campus roof. This […]
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