Development

The Story of the Arlington Hotel

On Wednesday, April 3, 2019, the Shreveport Metropolitan Planning Commission voted unanimously to allow Larson Family, LP a Special Use permit for property at 700 Cotton Street, the old Arlington Hotel. The limited partnership plans to open the “Every Man a King” distillery in 2020 that will feature a large outdoor patio space, distillery operations, […]

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408 Cotton Sells, Cool Things Coming

Adjacent to the Shreveport Downtown Development Authority (DDA) Building and just around the corner from the Lee Hardware Apartments sits this garage and storage building at 408 Cotton Street. It’s 12,000 square feet with a mezzanine, garage doors that lead off the alley and a ramp suitable for cars that leads upstairs. The ceilings are […]

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Downtowns: Moving from Mad to Action

(Reprinted from the Shreveport Times, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019) How much has changed in your life or in the way you think about things over the past 17 years? I’ll answer for you- a lot. In community terms, we have begun to more fully realize the dangers of aggressive annexation and urban sprawl to the […]

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Learn to Dance Downtown!

A little worried about your moves? Want your youngsters to feel confident on their feet, and enjoy exercising in a way that will not only make them feel better but look better? Brittany Pier says she has just the thing for you- or your children. Brittany, the owner and instructor at popular Be Dance Studio […]

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Welcome to The Smoke House @ Red River Brewing

Red River Brewing Co., downtown’s craft beer brewery and gastropub, welcomes a new food vendor to 1200 Marshall. The Smoke House @ Red River Brewing Co. opened Wednesday and debuted their new menu. It’s a little bit of a number of favorites from fresh Caesar Salads and giant burgers to mac n’ cheese with a […]

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Park Completion Near

The date for completion of the Shreveport Common Park is set- and it is- drum roll, please- Monday, October 21. The official opening is just the beginning of the excitement. From November 2 until December 8, the greenspace bounded by Texas Avenue, Cotton Street and Crockett Street will be the home of a FriendsWithYou inflatable […]

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LSUS Comes to Downtown!

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Senator Cassidy Tours Historic Projects

The timing was great for showing off some of downtown’s historic rehab projects to US Senator Bill Cassidy this week. Cassidy was a driving force in the retention of the Federal (Commercial) Historic Tax Credit in the 2017 Tax Act. That credit, and one offered by the State of Louisiana,  have been hugely helpful in […]

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Downtown Goes to the Gators

Riddle me this. What does downtown have in common with an alligator? Before recently, nothing at all. That has now changed with Big Pops Fresh Seafood, soon to be located at the former KCS Cafe building at 830 Louisiana Street. Larry Keith Burt is ‘Big Pops.’ For a time, Larry was known as ‘Pops’ to […]

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KICK Opens Its Doors

The walls are up, the kitchen equipment is in place and the Milam Street KICK- Kitchen Incubator & Community Kitchen – is officially open for slicing, dicing, cooking action. The incubator is a partnership between Southern University-Shreveport and the City of Shreveport’s Department of Community Development and aims to teach business-ready skills to students of […]

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