The Bossier City Council this week approved $1.2 million in spending expected to represent the final financial obligation required under a federal consent decree that has shaped development in South Bossier for more than 15 years.

The funds cover long-term redevelopment work in South Bossier projected to begin in March 2027 and run through 2032. The consent decree has been under the oversight of U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. City Attorney Charles Jacobs described the appropriation as the last phase of an obligation that predates the current council.

The original lawsuit, filed in 2008 by U.L. Coleman Companies, a Shreveport-based commercial real estate firm, centered on a dispute over development access to Arthur Ray Teague Parkway near what is now Brookshire Grocery Arena.

Sources: Bossier City Council, U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana