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Tim Magner
President, Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce destination master plan steering committee member
Shreveport-Bossier is a place with enough creativity, innovation and flavors for two cities. We are a community of interwoven communities, large and small. We hold our beliefs
close and our families even closer.
Since Captain Shreve cleared the “Great Raft” and founded the town that bears his name, Shreveport has been a location for innovators, inventors and hard workers who also know how to have a good time. Here you’ll find our unique combination of “cowboy gumbo” blending the best of Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana in our food, fashion and festivals.
Things grow here. We’re makers and creators who grow ideas and industries. Together, we’re the people who make our communities, neighborhoods and parishes distinctively unique, which creates the rich fabric that makes us uniquely who we are.
Our economy is equally diverse, including manufacturing, construction, health care, information technology, tourism, retail, oil and gas development, casino gaming, and warehousing and distribution, just to name a few. We are also home to world-class colleges and universities, as well as the many innovative men and women at Barksdale Air Force Base.
The Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce is proud to have participated in developing the Shreveport-Bossier Destination Master Plan to help further grow those industries by welcoming more people here. We look forward to working with everyone to accomplish the goals in this plan that our community formulated. Together, we can propel our special way of mixing things and making them our own to create a place you won’t find anywhere else.
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