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In late 2018, Shreveport was named the "worst place to live in Louisiana" and in 2019, the worst place to start a career. [6] [7] On January 16, 2020, Advanced Aero Services planned to open a facility at Shreveport Regional Airport, with an estimated 1,000 jobs by the end of the decade. [8] [9]
Shreveport (/ ˈ ʃ r iː v p ɔːr t / SHREEV-port) is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is the third-most populous city in Louisiana after New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The bulk of Shreveport is in Caddo Parish, of which it is the parish seat. [4] It extends along the west bank of the Red River into neighboring Bossier Parish.
Dallas-Shreveport railway in operation. [8] [1] Yellow fever outbreak. [1] [11] 1879 – Shreveport Daily Standard newspaper begins publication. [6] 1880 First Presbyterian Church built. [8] Population: 8,009. 1886 – Grand Opera House built. [8] 1887 – Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station built. 1890 Shreveport Library Association formed. [12]
In 2018, Western Global Airlines created a consolidated maintenance center at Shreveport Regional to serve its growing fleet of 16 Boeing 747 and McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 aircraft. The airline moved into the former Expressjet facilities. The airline cited Shreveport's central location as the reason for the airport being selected.
Shreve City is the area of Shreveport located between the Shreveport-Barksdale bridge and East Kings highway. Shreve City currently houses the neighborhoods of Shreve Island, Broadmoor, and South Broadmoor; between these small neighborhoods is the newly remodeled Shreve City shopping city which includes a new Wal-Mart Super Center, Burlington Coat Factory and other small stores.
The Red River between Shreveport and Bossier City. The Shreveport–Bossier City metropolitan area, officially designated Shreveport–Bossier City by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, [2] or simply Greater Shreveport, is a metropolitan statistical area in northwestern Louisiana that covers three parishes: Caddo, Bossier, and DeSoto. [3]
Joshua Logan (1908–1988), Broadway director of South Pacific and Mister Roberts; born in Texarkana, Texas, but raised in Shreveport. Dottye Dimple Brown Mason (1920 – 2003), was working as a stewardess when she was noticed for her looks and demeanor, which led to a role in the 1947 Jimmie Davis film "Louisiana."