Downtown Events

Halloween Happenings Downtown

Downtown is celebrating Halloween all month long with loads of special events for all ages. Check back frequently for updates! Do you have something to add to our Spooky Downtown list? Send it to us @dda@downtownshreveport.com. Mutiny at Shreveport Aquarium 601 Clyde Fant Parkway Daily through October 31st The pirate adventure is back! The Aquarium […]

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Fertitta’s Delicatessen – Home of the Muffy- And a Downtown Business That Could

Agatha Fertitta McCall is one downtown business owner who believes in herself and knows she can, and she does! Well-known in downtown Shreveport because of her family’s business – Fertitta’s Delicatessen, Agatha grew up at the restaurant at 1124 Fairfield Avenue, and for decades has continued the family tradition of creating downtown’s favorite muffuletta sandwich, […]

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Artwalk Returns May 1st!

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Artwalk Returns May 1st!

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Five Things to Do Downtown

See the new The Color Purple and get context on the emotions it creates. Play in the ‘sno’ one last time at artspace and make plans for both ringing in the New Year and brunch afterwards. It’s time for a little bit of Old Lang Syne in our #CoolDowntown. 1. The new The Color Purple […]

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Boy Scouts to the Rescue

If you do much walking around downtown, you’ve likely seen a dead crosswalk. Crosswalks are important, especially given that both motorists and pedestrians are getting more and more distracted and less and less likely to clear both ways before crossing a street. A couple of months ago, Van Denison of Boy Scout Troop 1o based […]

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Lunch on Us a Big Success

Seven Weeks. 13 Restaurants. 700 lunches. The first couple of weeks of the DDA’s Lunch on Us, DDA staff had tickets left over and tried several times to stop people on the street and give them a $10 lunch coupon- to no avail. By the final weeks of Lunch on Us, all 100 of the […]

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G Unit Film & TV Coming Downtown

After years of sitting mostly quiet, lights, camera and action will soon be returning to the former Millennium Studios at 300 Douglas Street in downtown Shreveport. On Tuesday, December 12, the Shreveport City Council unanimously passed an ordinance approving a lease for Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s G-Unit (his TV and Film business).  Beginning Jan. 1, […]

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Food Gifts for the Holidays

There’s always that one ( or two, or ten) people on your holiday shopping list that are problematic. You know ‘that’ person. He has everything and what he wants, he buys. She wants nothing, and only likes specific colors, scents, styles. Fret no more. We have discovered yet again during our Lunch on Us lunch […]

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Les Boutiques de Noel Through Dec. 2

There are several ways to know that Christmas is coming but one of the most loved has long been the Shreveport Opera Guild’s Les Boutiques de Noel. The shopping experience is the region’s very own holiday market, filled with gifts, stocking stuffers and seasonal goodies. One that recommend that provides a full mouth of delicious […]

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