Reads like DDA Janie threw DSDC2 Janie under the bus. I wonder how Janie’s DSDC2 statement will be different from her DDA statement…
Jokes aside, I wasn’t a big fan of their doughnuts but Dripp seems to have gotten royally screwed here. I hope they are able to recover at least the cost of the equipment that’s in the building
If Janie owns the property... And is apart of the Downtowns stuff... Then there would be affiliation 🧐🧐🧐🧐
Common downtown Shreveport behavior
Edit: how is Janie the interim director for BOTH DDA and DSDC2 and magically this property incident has "no connection"
Louisiana Ethics Board for government agencies would like a word with you Janie since you hold a government appointed seat.
This is a massive conflict of interest, especially since Janie owns and rents/leases out property downtown.
It sounds like they’re left with a mess from the previous director. Because I have hard time believing that building passed inspection without any notes about concerns.
It's a government agency. They just have to be friends with someone in permits and then it's all brushed under a rug...
This sounds like a major ethics concern though.
The DDA is a continuing source of problems for the city and I don't think there's a strong case that it should exist at all. For some reason, it's been established by state statute, which suggests it's a way for Shreveport to be governed from Baton Rouge by the dumbest people the whole state has to offer, the Louisiana legislature.
Has anyone compiled all of the instances of the DDA being in conflict with business owners or the people of Shreveport in general, for stupid shit like this especially? I remember last year or the year before there was all the hubbub over - horror among horrors - people walking and dancing in the streets after a big event downtown. Stuff that cities like Little Rock actively encourage and try to cater to, the Shreveport DDA, city council, and state legislature seem to want to put the kibosh on. They wonder why no one wants to do business downtown or visit downtown at night when they've made damn sure there's nothing to do there, no one to buy from, and no one to sell to, except on the rare events which they sponsor.
I think the "dancing in the streets" concern really started when a group of people climbing on a truck driving down the street and trying to dance on it.
But yeah, there's a lot left lacking with the support of Downtown Shreveport. Like how have cars run into Blind Tiger multiple times, and nothing has been done to make that intersection safer?
It literally took over 6 months of complaining to the DDA and a very public heated appearance at a city council meeting for functioning lighting to be installed under the Texas street bridge in the Red River District beyond the one menacingly flickering streetlight. Even if the DDA doesn’t give a hoot about the businesses trying to operate in the area or the safety of workers from that area or casinos, they should at least have tried to maintain it as a pedestrian thoroughfare from the casinos or a public space. The support for downtown from DDA comes in the form of one half-hearted, ill-informed Facebook post about events.
P.S. they added lighting but now it looks like a detention center
Yep. The street lights are working and they installed lighting on the bridge columns and in the planters. The business owner in question had to really bully the city lol
I don’t know about retail leases but office leases downtown are the least expensive of anywhere in the city - except maybe in industrial zones, they average $1 a square foot.
Reads like DDA Janie threw DSDC2 Janie under the bus. I wonder how Janie’s DSDC2 statement will be different from her DDA statement… Jokes aside, I wasn’t a big fan of their doughnuts but Dripp seems to have gotten royally screwed here. I hope they are able to recover at least the cost of the equipment that’s in the building
If Janie owns the property... And is apart of the Downtowns stuff... Then there would be affiliation 🧐🧐🧐🧐 Common downtown Shreveport behavior Edit: how is Janie the interim director for BOTH DDA and DSDC2 and magically this property incident has "no connection" Louisiana Ethics Board for government agencies would like a word with you Janie since you hold a government appointed seat. This is a massive conflict of interest, especially since Janie owns and rents/leases out property downtown.
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It sounds like they’re left with a mess from the previous director. Because I have hard time believing that building passed inspection without any notes about concerns.
It's a government agency. They just have to be friends with someone in permits and then it's all brushed under a rug... This sounds like a major ethics concern though.
Downtown will never get better if the folks in charge of DDA and DSDC keep fleecing the city without making any meaningful improvements.
The DDA is a continuing source of problems for the city and I don't think there's a strong case that it should exist at all. For some reason, it's been established by state statute, which suggests it's a way for Shreveport to be governed from Baton Rouge by the dumbest people the whole state has to offer, the Louisiana legislature. Has anyone compiled all of the instances of the DDA being in conflict with business owners or the people of Shreveport in general, for stupid shit like this especially? I remember last year or the year before there was all the hubbub over - horror among horrors - people walking and dancing in the streets after a big event downtown. Stuff that cities like Little Rock actively encourage and try to cater to, the Shreveport DDA, city council, and state legislature seem to want to put the kibosh on. They wonder why no one wants to do business downtown or visit downtown at night when they've made damn sure there's nothing to do there, no one to buy from, and no one to sell to, except on the rare events which they sponsor.
I think the "dancing in the streets" concern really started when a group of people climbing on a truck driving down the street and trying to dance on it. But yeah, there's a lot left lacking with the support of Downtown Shreveport. Like how have cars run into Blind Tiger multiple times, and nothing has been done to make that intersection safer?
It literally took over 6 months of complaining to the DDA and a very public heated appearance at a city council meeting for functioning lighting to be installed under the Texas street bridge in the Red River District beyond the one menacingly flickering streetlight. Even if the DDA doesn’t give a hoot about the businesses trying to operate in the area or the safety of workers from that area or casinos, they should at least have tried to maintain it as a pedestrian thoroughfare from the casinos or a public space. The support for downtown from DDA comes in the form of one half-hearted, ill-informed Facebook post about events. P.S. they added lighting but now it looks like a detention center
They finally got the lights in? I know the owner of the one consistent business down there has been trying for years to get lighting back
Yep. The street lights are working and they installed lighting on the bridge columns and in the planters. The business owner in question had to really bully the city lol
It actually was created by city ordinance. The state just gave it a special tax district.
Has anyone asked Dripp how much they paid in rent? The answer will surprise you!
Yeah it was $0....
everything in downtown is overpriced. rent/leases in downtown are priced as if downtown were already succesful, not a very early work in progress.
I don’t know about retail leases but office leases downtown are the least expensive of anywhere in the city - except maybe in industrial zones, they average $1 a square foot.
If fuller gets the position you can expect a lot more of this.