With its historic architecture and mix of trendy shops, galleries and restaurants, Magazine Street has long been a popular pedestrian promenade attracting residents and visitors alike.
For much of its century-and-a-half history as a commercial corridor, the street tended to attract small, locally owned boutiques and antique stores to the 19th-century cottages and shotguns that line the thoroughfare, which extends for 6 miles along a natural ridgeline from Audubon Park to Canal Street downtown.
Over the past decade, that has begun to change, with more national brands taking notice and moving in…