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  2. Shreveport/Bossier City Development

    in Shreveport-Bossier City

    Posted · Edited by Metlife

    22 hours ago, Catfish said:

    Well, it looks like Shreveport screwed up another potentially positive thing for the city in the $150+ million sports and mixed-use project. I  know a lot of people were against it, citing bad roads and crime as their reason for being opposed, knowing full well that $30 million is not going to fix the crime rate. Anyone who thinks otherwise is extremely naïve. This was to come from bond money, which the city would pay back over a number of years. This wasn’t $30 million out of the city’s budget, this was money the city didn’t even have yet. But people in Shreveport can be very, very ignorant.

    The other thing I noted from the article in The Times is that 25 people spoke IN FAVOR of the project and only 14 spoke AGAINST it. Now, that doesn’t sound to me like the city was listening to the people, if the people who were against it were that much in the minority at the meeting. It sounds like they listened to the minority of the people at the meeting rather than the majority.

    It was nice knowing you, Shreveport, but you’re letting the small town mentality take you down.

    As if you couldn’t tell, I was in favor of this project; and as a person who hates basketball, I still would have attended games just to help it succeed.

    Hopefully Mayor Tyler can come up with another way to make this happen. If not, the team will have to go to Pensacola, I suppose. And Shreveport misses out on an opportunity to develop the Cross Bayou area of downtown with a partner willing to put up over $100 million of their own money.

    I know, man. Very disappointing.  People have to realize that if you want to take the next step, you have to be willing to be bold and take some risks. You can't sit on your hands for the next 25-30 years and fix the roads, sewer issues, and do nothing else. I realize that we have challenges ahead, but I believe we can do both.

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