thanks for the replies, sheboygan ey? yah..dats a good lil ole city up dare'... anyways monroe: Yeah, looks as though they forgot what a downtown is used for. Its almost as though we could just steal some of there classic buildings and add density to shreveport and no one would notice. Enough about Funroe; state fair, concerts, boardwalk, ect... sounds like my kind of city! Milwaukee has a nice boardwalk but its quite under utilized by the people. It lacks retail, but has a few places to dine. I loved the boardwalk because it had 4 20-40 story towers right along the edge of the river along with tons of row houses and apartments just recently developed(condo boom). If it were not for huge lake michigan and all its lakeshore parks, i'd imagine our river would take on a more recreational atmosphere as does Shreveport/ BC. The park is great along the Red River on the Sport side. Its a great place to ponder on the urban core of the city.When i visited in March for the first time, people were everywhere walking the city...it felt great. I would never think Shreveport had a more urban feel than dallas. I visited Dallas in middle of the summer, NO ONE was downtown! I was waiting for tumbleweed to fly by. It was pathetic!
I have been reading about the new convention center in Shreveport, how has that done for the city? I have heard Shreveport's economy is doing well as of late...but what southern city isn't? Thanks for the infill on next saturday, i will walk around the city some more to get a better feel next week...im excited. I havent seen a skyline since Atlanta in early september...other than the shreveport drive by the other day
this link for some scattered milwaukee pictures...the skyline is so weird..its on a hill so you can never really get all the equivilent sizes of the buildings...its similar to the placement of sh/bc's random casino buildings of the skyline.(i understand the whole gambling thing on the river: neat idea)
http://com5.runboard.com/burbanmilwaukee.f3
