Paul Pratt of Gateway Development Consortium talks with 101.7 / 710 KEEL's Robert J Wright and Erin McCarty about the Shreveport City Council making amendments to the proposed Memorandum of Understanding and how that might affect the proposed billion dollar development of the city's Cross Bayou area. Pratt tells KEEL listeners that a 4-3 vote by the council to set a number of milestones for GDC to meet is "a step in the right direction." READ MORE

Shreveport City Council voted 4-3 in favor of a resolution that gives the mayor a vote of confidence as talks of Bayou Cross development heat up. Except the mayor didn't exactly know what the resolution was all about. "I'm not going to speak to the amendment even, until I can see what it says, but I do want to make it clear, very clear, this is not my legislation, I am not leading this effort, I am supporting developers that want to develop Cross Bayou, but I will not be lead

SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - The developers behind a new plan for Cross Bayou are feeling encouraged after Shreveport City Council members gave an early show of support Tuesday. The proposal, however, is a long way from being a done deal. Gateway Development Consortium (GDC) hopes to build a $1 billion mixed-use complex that will include a municipal complex, a school, housing and more. READ MORE

Shreveport City Council members gave a sign of support for the hotly debated Cross Bayou development at its Tuesday, May 22 meeting. Council members debated a resolution that would have authorized a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with developers Gateway Development Consortium (GDC) to build a $1 billion mixed-use district on the Red River just off downtown Shreveport. READ MORE

Shreveport council endorses Cross Bayou project while mayor sniffs The development company, Gateway Development Consortium, said Wednesday that the council's action will permit it to proceed with securing investor commitments. In the past, Gateway also has said it needed a city endorsement to begin discussions with possible anchor tenants. Key among those tenants is Louisiana state government, which Gateway hopes to entice into placing 1,000 or more state employees in an offi