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Also, someone I know who lives in the Blanchard area was telling me recently that not only are they getting a new Wal-Mart out there at I-49/Hwy 1, but a Home Depot as well. I don't put much stock in

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I can hear the crickets chirping in here and it's sad. This was once a pretty happening forum. Oh well. Just thought I'd pop in and mention that I've been following the Amazon development in Shrevepor

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I'm hearing through the grapevine that the city of Shreveport, which was so proud of its large new convention center a few years back when it was built, is now letting it go to crap. The event planner

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Perhaps the outdoor food court at the Boardwalk, if at all. I, too, would be surprised if it happened... never heard even the slightest peep about such until now.

 

As for PF Chang's, they have been looking for a good location here for years. They had a location picked out years ago, on the site where Panera Bread and Panda Express now sit on Youree Drive. Why they backed out on such a stellar location, who knows. My guess is that, if they are coming, they will build in the new shopping center being built along with Whole Foods on 70th. For what it's worth, the thought of PF Chang's used to excite me. Now that I've eaten at PF Chang's in a couple of other cities and tried different things on their menu, I'm honestly not impressed at all. I'll stick with Imperial Cathay, Ming Garden, and other local establishments.

 

What WOULD impress me would be The Cheesecake Factory. I've eaten at a few of them and love the hell out of them. Copeland's Cheesecake Bistro, though often mistaken by locals as "The Cheesecake Factory", is NOT a viable alternative. Copeland's is good, if you want that kind of food. But The Cheesecake Factory is on a whole different level altogether.

 

One restaurant I'm really looking forward to, which should be nearing completion, is Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill. Having eaten at the original one in OKC numerous times, I love that restaurant. The food and atmosphere, and the very real chance to meet Toby, himself, as well as other famous musicians, is an added bonus.

 

As for the high speed rail thing, I'm sure I've heard talk on this forum over the years of something like that between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. But it also makes sense to link Dallas and Atlanta along the I-20 corridor... Shreveport and Jackson would just be smaller benefactors along the way.

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What WOULD impress me would be The Cheesecake Factory. I've eaten at a few of them and love the hell out of them. Copeland's Cheesecake Bistro, though often mistaken by locals as "The Cheesecake Factory", is NOT a viable alternative. Copeland's is good, if you want that kind of food. But The Cheesecake Factory is on a whole different level.

I'm with you on that...

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So, does anyone know what is being built in front of the Horseshoe on Traffic Street in Bossier? They are 4 stories up, and it looks like that may be the top floor. It appears that it's going to be some kind of boutique hotel like the one at the Boardwalk and like the new-ish Wyndham hotel a block down Barksdale Blvd from there. But if it's going to be a hotel, it actually looks like it will have quite a few rooms. It's only 4 floors but it's pretty long. As you drive toward the Horseshoe from the Boardwalk, you can't miss it as it sits just back from the railroad bridge. I know for years the Horseshoe has said that it will build another hotel "tower" but I wonder if they decided to do something smaller instead? Or if they did like they did at Louisiana Downs and sold that parcel for someone else to build a hotel. That way, it's a win-win for Horseshoe... they make money off the land and they lose nothing because they then lure those gamblers with the fact that the hotel is literally right across the parking area from the casino complex. Any thoughts? It's being built by Lincoln Builders but I can't find anything about this project on their website.

 

Also, our area's first Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market store is shaping up quite nicely across from Stockwell Place Elementary School in Bossier. Plus, Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill is coming along at Pierre Bossier Mall.

 

This is a good time to live here. There's quite a bit going on for an area that has been sleepy for so long. Whole Foods/upscale shopping development, Camp Forbing shopping development, Bossier Kroger Marketplace shopping development, north Shreveport is finally building up thanks to the recently opened I-49 North stretch, plus I-49's final stretch from Hwy 1 to I-220 is getting underway. Expect major freeway construction in that area over the next few years as they work to tie in both freeways and build new lanes as well as new flyover ramps. We will have a new "mixmaster" of overpasses, as some call it, at that location.

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That makes sense, given the size of the building. And although there are many other hotel chains that we don't have (like W Aloft) that I'd love to see there, Hampton isn't bad. I know we have one in Bossier, one by the airport, and I think maybe one somewhere else already, so this will make a nice addition to their family in this market. The Hampton I recently stayed at in Dallas was truly top-notch.

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I've  got a buddy from Houston who lives here now for work. When he first got moved here, he didn't like it... it was too small for him, real estate prices are far more expensive than in the Houston market, and so on. But it's really grown on him and he now calls Shreveport home. He loves it here. One day when we were driving past downtown on I-20, he said to me, "You know, this place has grown on me. It just doesn't seem so small anymore." And he's always talking about how much it's grown since he's been here. It's too bad there hasn't been much population growth, but the retail sector sure has grown and continues to do so. Plus, new apartments and neighborhoods all around south Shreveport where he lives. Shreveport converted a hardcore, lifelong Houstonian... that's quite a feat in itself!!

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If you look at the lofts@624 website the nearest grocer (that's open now, not in a year) is Brookshire's on line there should be a downtown grocer like Trader Joes or even The Fresh Market because there is lots of downtown buildings for sale. Maybe that could be the next development downtown.

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Official announcement of the lofts@624 project...

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/money/business/2014/12/10/retail-coming-downtown-shreveport/20213853/

 

http://www.ksla.com/clip/10936359/three-historic-buildings-in-downtown-shreveport-undergoing-renovations#.VIkSPa8zajI.facebook

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When do they think they'll have ground breaking?

 

Everything that I've read or heard points to Spring 2015. It's gonna take a lot of work to clear and level that land out. However, I feel like that's best case scenario. It took the Whole Foods project nearly 11 months to break ground, in comparison...

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I wonder what's going across the street from the camp forbing town center there is a fair sized lot with a White House that is now vacated and there starting to tear it down

 

Which road, Ellerbe or Flournoy Lucas? I'll have to take a look next time I'm headed that way...

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