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Shreveport has a lot of potential,
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:40 pm
Was in Shreveport the last couple of days. Interesting place with lots of entertainment and potential, but for some reason the state or city is almost trying to force it to decline. I know this board likes to blame everything on ‘culture’ but that shouldn’t affect these things:
My observations:
Louisiana Boardwalk: great layout, vibe, etc. nice way to use the River for something productive. However half the property is for lease or vacant, and the ones that aren’t have to be barely surviving.
Infrastructure: I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a city that has failed to maintain infrastructure quite like Shreveport. Water towers stained and weathered beyond belief, street/interstate signs with paint worn off and weathered beyond repair, potholes in the middle of freeways, etc. That stretch if I-20 has to be one of the worst maintained roadways in the nation.
Closed, empty buildings: in and around downtown there seems to be an unusual amount of empty buildings just rotting away. No maintenance or care. This also includes visuals such as the old minor league ballpark that still just sits there abandoned and decrepit.
Is there a reason it appears politicians, city leaders, investors, etc do not appear to have dumped one dime into maintenance for the city in a couple of decades? There’s a gold mine there with the casinos as long as the Texas money is coming. A River to build things along. The city is also in a great spot for I-20 to provide a central hub for a shipping hub.
My observations:
Louisiana Boardwalk: great layout, vibe, etc. nice way to use the River for something productive. However half the property is for lease or vacant, and the ones that aren’t have to be barely surviving.
Infrastructure: I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a city that has failed to maintain infrastructure quite like Shreveport. Water towers stained and weathered beyond belief, street/interstate signs with paint worn off and weathered beyond repair, potholes in the middle of freeways, etc. That stretch if I-20 has to be one of the worst maintained roadways in the nation.
Closed, empty buildings: in and around downtown there seems to be an unusual amount of empty buildings just rotting away. No maintenance or care. This also includes visuals such as the old minor league ballpark that still just sits there abandoned and decrepit.
Is there a reason it appears politicians, city leaders, investors, etc do not appear to have dumped one dime into maintenance for the city in a couple of decades? There’s a gold mine there with the casinos as long as the Texas money is coming. A River to build things along. The city is also in a great spot for I-20 to provide a central hub for a shipping hub.
This post was edited on 9/29/22 at 2:43 pm
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:42 pm to BabyTac
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Shreveport has a lot of potential,
So does Detroit.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:44 pm to BabyTac
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Infrastructure: I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a city that has failed to maintain infrastructure quite like Shreveport.
You've never been to New Orleans then I guess.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:46 pm to BabyTac
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Is there a reason it appears politicians, city leaders, investors, etc do not appear to have dumped one dime into maintenance for the city in a couple of decades?
Shreveport was given back to nature.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:47 pm to BabyTac
It has a Loop, so there's that.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:48 pm to BabyTac
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Infrastructure: I’m not sure I’ve ever been to a city that has failed to maintain infrastructure quite like Shreveport. Water towers stained and weathered beyond belief, street/interstate signs with paint worn off and weathered beyond repair, potholes in the middle of freeways, etc. That stretch if I-20 has to be one of the worst maintained roadways in the nation.
As someone who is from Shreveport and now lives in New Orleans, I would kill for roads like we have in Shreveport.
The Boardwalk used to be great, Not sure what it's like now, I haven't been in several years.
This post was edited on 9/29/22 at 2:51 pm
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:49 pm to BabyTac
born and raised in Shreveport - left in 2019
thugs and crime filled the boardwalk so the citizens stopped going there, leading to the stores closing down from no $
this has always been an issue, and is brought up every year - instead, the mayor felt it would be a better use of funds to build a YMCA gym for the less fortunate
google shreveport downtown in the 1950/60's, and you will see it used to be a very popular area - now it's filled with homeless crackheads and the bars downtown consistently have shootings after midnight (thugs)
the mayors have been caught in numerous corruption scandals, and the current mayor is on extremely thin ice
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Louisiana Boardwalk
thugs and crime filled the boardwalk so the citizens stopped going there, leading to the stores closing down from no $
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Infrastructure
this has always been an issue, and is brought up every year - instead, the mayor felt it would be a better use of funds to build a YMCA gym for the less fortunate
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downtown
google shreveport downtown in the 1950/60's, and you will see it used to be a very popular area - now it's filled with homeless crackheads and the bars downtown consistently have shootings after midnight (thugs)
the mayors have been caught in numerous corruption scandals, and the current mayor is on extremely thin ice
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:49 pm to BabyTac
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visuals such as the old minor league ballpark that still just sits there abandoned and decrepit.
It's getting torn down... Kind of.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:51 pm to BabyTac
As long as you have potential you suck.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:53 pm to BabyTac
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Louisiana Boardwalk: great layout, vibe, etc. nice way to use the River for something productive. However half the property is for lease or vacant, and the ones that aren’t have to be barely surviving.
It's just a shopping mall that's outside. So, no different than all the other malls. Same issues.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:55 pm to BabyTac
Also has absurd amounts of democrats
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:55 pm to BabyTac
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That stretch if I-20 has to be one of the worst maintained roadways in the nation.
You must never come down to the southern part of this state.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:55 pm to Jim Rockford
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It has half a Loop, so there's that.
Fixed
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:57 pm to BabyTac
Louisiana is shite. And I’m a lifelong Louisiana native. We’re constantly in the bottom three of every negative statistic possible.
Posted on 9/29/22 at 2:59 pm to BabyTac
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‘culture’ but that shouldn’t affect these things:
I hope the sand your head is buried in isn’t TOO grainy
Posted on 9/29/22 at 3:00 pm to BabyTac
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Shreveport has a lot of potential,
Posted on 9/29/22 at 3:01 pm to BabyTac
Is the Shreveport Chamber of Tourism still using the slogan ‘Shreveport: At Least We’re Not Alexandria’?
Posted on 9/29/22 at 3:01 pm to BabyTac
It's main export is depression...and population.
The problem with Shreveport is that it wants to be Dallas, but is light years behind and in a state that itself has a unique identity.
Also contributing is that it shuns its neighbor of Bossier that it also loses population to. Speaking of population, it annexed too much city in the 80s and 90s chasing tax base, and now it has to support a larger footprint with city services all while the children of the annexed areas haven’t returned after leaving, losing a whole/half generation of economic momentum. It additionally has too much generational wealth sitting on the sideline from a civic involvement-standpoint. It has a relatively interesting architectural downtown that is a ghost town because its buildings are holding space on some family trust’s balance sheet.
It needs to understand that its only way to survive is as a region. Turn the Texas street bridge into a pedestrian bridge. Build residential living in the old buildings, commercial space on the Bossier side. Let go of their pearls and allow some semblance of a nightlife downtown. Let go of Texas, embrace its Louisiana. Let Forbing secede, and cut your losses.
Shreveport has an interesting musical history that it has never really leveraged to any great extent, as well. No reason they shouldn't attempt a Hayride Fest or something. Put it in May and call it "May-ride" and let actual musicians help pick bands.
ETA: 20 miles away from a 26% raise in MFI and 3 years additional life expectancy.
The problem with Shreveport is that it wants to be Dallas, but is light years behind and in a state that itself has a unique identity.
Also contributing is that it shuns its neighbor of Bossier that it also loses population to. Speaking of population, it annexed too much city in the 80s and 90s chasing tax base, and now it has to support a larger footprint with city services all while the children of the annexed areas haven’t returned after leaving, losing a whole/half generation of economic momentum. It additionally has too much generational wealth sitting on the sideline from a civic involvement-standpoint. It has a relatively interesting architectural downtown that is a ghost town because its buildings are holding space on some family trust’s balance sheet.
It needs to understand that its only way to survive is as a region. Turn the Texas street bridge into a pedestrian bridge. Build residential living in the old buildings, commercial space on the Bossier side. Let go of their pearls and allow some semblance of a nightlife downtown. Let go of Texas, embrace its Louisiana. Let Forbing secede, and cut your losses.
Shreveport has an interesting musical history that it has never really leveraged to any great extent, as well. No reason they shouldn't attempt a Hayride Fest or something. Put it in May and call it "May-ride" and let actual musicians help pick bands.
ETA: 20 miles away from a 26% raise in MFI and 3 years additional life expectancy.
This post was edited on 9/29/22 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 9/29/22 at 3:20 pm to Socrates Johnson
You haven’t posted much of this before haven’t you
Meant to say have* posted this
Meant to say have* posted this
This post was edited on 9/29/22 at 3:57 pm
Posted on 9/29/22 at 3:25 pm to justaniceguy
Ha, yeah, i just copied it from an old post of mine. Added the music stuff.
My wife’s folks live in Chattanooga, and I think that’s a city Shreveport should study.
My wife’s folks live in Chattanooga, and I think that’s a city Shreveport should study.
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