This was a good week for both the history and the future of an important block in downtown. The 500 block of Milam Street sits in the heart of the Central Business District. Across from the Caddo Parish Courthouse, for 60 years it was the home to the Rubenstein’s Department Store. For the past 35 […]
The long-awaited Bayou Grande apartments at 961 Caddo Street opened its doors to the community today, to show off our newest option in downtown living! Over the past couple of years, there have been a lot of questions about what was being built at the corner of Common and Caddo Streets downtown, but the efforts […]
We have been SUCH Sneaky Petes lately about the amazing new eatery that is COMING SOON to downtown Shreveport! A couple of weeks ago, we spilled the beans with a photo of a popular and talented local restauranteur standing in front of the new bright red doors at artspace, 708 Texas Street. Pepito Munoz, he […]
1229 Texas Avenue is not a building that would generally elicit any response other than ‘Oooh’, and not in a good way. Many downtown buildings- from the former Sears Department Store at 624 Texas Street, to the Interstate Wholesale Furniture at 816 McNeil- covered all their windows once air conditioning became available. Apparently, cooled air […]
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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 […]
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