Development

Road Closure/Road Work Updates

UPDATE: The intersection at Cotton and Marshall is now open to traffic.   Meanwhile, over the Red River, things are moving right along on the Long- Allen, aka Texas Street Bridge. DOTD spokesperson Erin Buchanan tells the DDA that the state is anticipating an early summer completion at this point, which is on schedule. She […]

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Spend Some Bread at Retro Baking Company

New Year’s Resolution be darned- downtown’s newest location for home-baked sweets is calling your name! The doors are open at Retro Baking Company at 500 Texas, a perfect location at the corner of Texas and Marshall adjacent to Government Plaza and the main branch of the Shreve Memorial Library and across from the Caddo Parish […]

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Downtown Construction Woes

Chances are good that you, too, have been witness to spray-painted marks on the sidewalks and the streets, dirt piles, random holes, trenches and poor repairs. The city seems awash in companies digging, trenching, stringing and just generally making a mess, with seemingly little accountability. Over the last few months the city has acquired a […]

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Cross Bayou Development Council Vote & Update

On Tuesday, Jan 28, the Shreveport City Council voted 4-3 to oppose a Resolution Authorizing the Mayor to Execute a Binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City of Shreveport and Gateway Louisiana, LLC, and To Otherwise Provide With Respect Thereto.  This is city legal language that relates to these documents: Cross Bayou Fact Sheet […]

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Noble Savage Tavern Opens for Lunch

First, to the really important stuff. After years of being able to get Noble Savage Tavern’s remarkably creative and delicious cuisine only at night and only while sitting in a space heavy with tobacco smoke, starting Monday, Jan. 13, you will be able to go for lunch in a smoke-free environment. While the weight of […]

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DDA/DSDC’s Stand on Cross Bayou Point

Reprinted from the Shreveport Times Our Opposition to Cross Bayou Point The Boards of Directors of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) and the Downtown Shreveport Development Corporation (DSDC) have voted to oppose the current Cross Bayou Point plan proposed by Gateway Development Consortium (GDC). These votes are significant in that both of these organizations were […]

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DDA Scores Downtown Lighting Grant

In 2020, you’ll see downtown in a whole new light! The improvement is thanks to Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell and SWEPCO’s participation in the LPSC Energy Efficiency program for public entities and political subdivisions. That’s a mouthful, but the upshot is that $2.5m from SWEPCO was used to fund nine lighting improvement projects in […]

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Every Man A King Moves Forward

If you’ve driven past the old Arlington Hotel on Cotton Street recently, you’ve seen the evidence of all that is going on inside, and it’s a-plenty. The Every Man a King Distillery is making solid progress though the opening date has -wisely- been set for summer 2020. Anyone who has ever rehabbed a challenged (and […]

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Shreveport Hilton’s New Look

Nov. 20, 2019 UPDATE– The Hilton Shreveport (the world class business hotel we fondly know as the Hilton Downtown) is in the final days of a big new ‘do. Work on a massive re-do of the lobby, the bar, restaurant, meeting rooms, common spaces…even of wiring and lighting, is coming to an end. Plans are to […]

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‘Loft’y Space for Lease!

Some of the coveted mezzanine space at The Lofts at 624 is available, which could be very good news for you! There are three big reasons we love this space: The natural light that floods through floor-to-ceiling windows. Vitamin D every day! The mezzanine spaces put you at eye level with a remarkable piece of […]

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