I Am Downtown

Discover Apotheworx: An Impressive Concierge Pharmacy Experience in Downtown Shreveport

Discover Apotheworx: A Concierge Pharmacy Experience in Downtown Shreveport The Shreveport area is about to experience a transformation in healthcare with the opening of Apotheworx, a cutting-edge pharmacy that is changing the way we think about healthcare services. Located in Downtown Shreveport at 429 Crockett Street, Apotheworx is not your typical pharmacy. It offers a […]

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Do You Know a Downtown Friend?

Downtown Shreveport loves friends, and this week we picked out a gentleman to thank for that friendship. Michael Mackey has been a Sales Consultant at Rountree Ford – Lincoln for 32 years. Several months ago, we started noticing that Michael was liking and sharing a lot of our Facebook posts about good things happening downtown, […]

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It’s the Wreath Time of Year!

As the weather turns cooler, the DDA Streetscape’s divisions thoughts turn to the holidays and all the many festive green wreaths they will be hanging! This fun chore generally takes several weeks to complete. Each year leading up the holidays, the crew changes out lightbulbs on- and hangs- about 400 wreaths throughout downtown. The wreaths, […]

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Things to Do For First Timers

Money, Inc. posted a story on their website this week about the 20 things a first timer to Shreveport should do. We were pretty thrilled that 14 of the 20 things were in downtown! While we love the 20, we prefer our 50! Our Field Guide of Things to Do Downtown is chock full of […]

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Happy Easter! We Miss You.

This week, Liz and Stacie put up a message for all passing the DDA office at 416 Cotton. We wanted to outline it in twinkly lights, but that turned into a total fiasco. In fact, it is too bad we didn’t video the entire sad operation and send it in to some kind of ‘Nailed […]

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Downtown Daily Good Deeds

See our shout out for Daily Good Deeds on our Shreveport DDA Facebook Page. Every day brings a new deed to celebrate as we make it through COVID-19. Please ‘Like’ our page to keep up with things happening downtown and sign up for our weekly DDA eBlast. On March 26, the Downtown Development Authority kicked […]

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Lift Your Spirits at This Hilton Event

The Shreveport Hilton Hotel has a festive new event planned to make your spirits bright, just in time for the holidays. The Making Spirits Bright sipping & tasting experience is Friday evening in the newly-rehabbed Hilton lobby bar just unveiled to the public. This is going to be a cool yule deal. The Hilton will […]

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I Am Downtown Pins Are Gone!

Our limited edition ‘I Am Downtown’ pins are officially gone! Over the past few weeks, people from all over Shreveport-Bossier have filled out applications and sent photos of themselves having fun downtown in order to score one of these limited-edition pins. Many of them sent pictures of activities in our free, downloaded Field Guide of […]

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I Am Downtown Photo Winner!

It is not unusual to see Brad Campbell and husband Steven Galbraith downtown. They are members at Robinson Film Center and regulars at Abby Singer’s Bistro. Brad is a special fan of Chef Tootie Morrison’s braised collard greens and Gouda mac and cheese, a dish he jokingly calls his ‘second favorite vegetable.’ Brad, a retired […]

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Touring Downtown: Neil Erwin Law Office

One of the things we hear often downtown is ‘I wonder what’s behind that wall’? You could have walked or driven past cool historic buildings and tall office towers for years and never known what lurked behind the facade…until now. From now through the end of the year, we’ll going to take you inside some […]

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