There are places people who’ve been in Shreveport for a while remember fondly. Shreve Square. Nanking’s restaurant. The Florentine. These are the businesses in which wild plans were hatched, friendships begun, drunken ideas were debated long into the night, and memories were made. Those places are gone, but over the years, others have taken their […]
Downtown’s Red River District, the pretty, tree-lined area of shops under the Texas Street Bridge across from Bally’s Casino, is shady, welcoming, and quiet. Too quiet. The quiet is mostly because the district’s three largest retail/restaurant spaces are empty, waiting for tenants to bite, funding to be acquired and leases to be approved. This is […]
The Petroleum Club of Shreveport, one of downtown’s two private fine dining clubs, has begun offering breakfast on Wednesdays, 7-10 am. If the Wednesday breakfast becomes a hit, the full menu breakfast may expand to additional days. Wednesday breakfast includes a full menu of morning favorites, ample sides and free flowing coffee. Eat while […]
Don’t be surprised to see officers ‘walking the beat’ in downtown Shreveport. The Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation (DSDC) are hiring off-duty Shreveport police officers to patrol downtown on random days and times. The foot patrol is not intended to take the place of on-duty officers, but to add more visibility […]
A wise person once said that good things come in small packages and we couldn’t agree more. One small section of the southern part of downtown awakens each morning to the sounds of hammers and saws, and the package that will eventually be opened here will be a beautiful one, indeed. When you drive into […]
If you haven’t had the opportunity to go by and see The Gallery at Andress, this weekend is your chance. The gallery is featuring the vibrant, colorful paintings of Martin Welch (see Welch’s story below). The space on the ground floor of the beautiful Andress Artist and Entrepreneur Center was filled over the grand opening […]
Slava Ukraini. You may have seen this phrase in media reports or on Facebook. It’s most literal translation is ‘Glory to Ukraine’ and it has been become an international rallying cry in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of the country. To show solidarity with Ukraine and its people, Shreveport-Bossier’s new ‘Bakowski Bridge of Lights’ […]
In late 2019, in the days just before ‘Covid’ became a household word, the Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation, a non-profit dedicated to encouraging business and revitalizing downtown with a goal of saving our inventory of historic buildings, received the donation of the historic Rubenstein’s Department Store buildings. The Lanford and Rubenstein buildings that comprise 513 […]
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In the early 1920s, Cotton Street in downtown Shreveport was not as it looks today. The street wasn’t far removed from the former waterfront of Silver Lake (‘Lake Street’) and was filled with a variety of homes, from stately mansions to smaller single family to those with rooms for rent. In 1919, 611 Cotton was the […]
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