Should have asked you Baws about Shreveport

“You are what the OT says you are.”

-Bill Parcells

South Shreveport is a nice area. But there aren’t any hotels there.

If you stayed out by pines road, it’s ghetto, best bet was to head over the bridge to bossier.

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I can’t name one positive thing about Shreveport

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Better food choices than South Louisiana is the only thing I’ve got.

It’s the American Baghdad

The part around the interstate is bad.

There are some very pretty old neighborhoods in Shreveport, but those are not immune from crime either even the ones that sold have well to do people living in them.

Most of the hotels along the interstate are gonna be in not great spot.

Even the casinos up in that area are run down and smell bad!

We lived in Bossier for a bit more than a decade ago.

Bossier is okay, but the entire area is depressed. Shreveport is really bad aside from a few pockets. Those areas are okay.

Like Tac said above they did try with the Boardwalk. My wife and I actually went on our first date there. Sushi place, walked around got some yogurt, smelled candles in a Yankee Candle, and then saw a movie. It was great, but I remember that there were not very many people there and I think it was a Friday. This was in 2014, so I can only imagine now.

I think any area with water can do great things as long as the citizens want it and care about it.

Take Boise for example. They have the Boise River, which by our standards is basically a wide creek. However, they have dumped money into the infrastructure around the river for decades to make it a feature of living in Boise. There's a greenbelt, sandbars, parks, dog parks, food trucks, commercial real estate, and beautification all along it. People float it in the summer, fish it year-round, etc. When something is going to change, it's a big deal. There are meetings, the local publications write about it, people will bring it up in conversation.

I rarely see that sort of thing down here and it's sad. The waterways here have a lot more potential if people would treat things nice and not make an arse of themselves in public. This is not specific to one demographic, because throughout my life I've seen plenty of white people making an arse of themselves on boats on Kincaid Lake.

There's just no significant push to do things that would actually be the catalyst for a place people want to see here. If you dump money into public infrastructure and parks without corrupt good ole boy networks skimming off the top, and those projects increase the beauty of a place, you will attract the right people. It's a long-term play that make people mad down here. People want a top golf, or they want a Buc-ees and they get mad at the government when they don't entice the latest chain to move here. Really, businesses move to a place with money. Money gets in a place with industry. Industry comes from an educated populace. An educated populace doesn't move to a run down shithole. This applies to almost everywhere in this state.

I told my wife, that is the sketchiest drive I have ever had. I was scared I was going to sideswipe our SUV on the barricades they there so close. It’s dangerous.