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 […]
The sale is complete on the 343,543 square foot, 21-story Louisiana Tower at 401 Edwards Street. Real Estate developer R.D. Sharma of Atlanta, Georgia, was the high bidder at $7.5m.; he told the DDA he owns properties in multiple states including George, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, and more recently, Louisiana. Sharma’s plans are to enhance […]
Crews at the soon-to-open Phoenix Downtown are working as hard as elves in Santa’s workshop to get the thousand details sorted out by tomorrow evening at 9 pm. December 23rd is the ‘soft’ opening of 400 Commerce Street, the rebirth of the former Phoenix Underground into Phoenix Downtown. For the last few months, the buildout […]
It’s been a wonderfully weird and mostly fun year for Jim Malsch, the owner of 717 Crockett Street. His rehab of the former Andress Ford into the Andress Artist and Entrepreneur Center was smooth and seamless, made easier with the talented design and construction professionals he had hired to turn the former blighted building into […]
Realtor Trent Siskron is beginning to wonder if he has a tiger by the tail. This past week, he listed 710 Crockett, the ‘Salvation Army Lofts’ and already, the listing is going viral. “I haven’t seen anything like this on any other listing I have had,” he told me this morning. It’s not a surprise […]
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