For the first time since Shreveport’s General Motors plant closed, the 3.5 million square foot facility is 100% occupied, owner Industrial Realty Group, LLC says.
The company that has pushed occupancy to ‘full’ is SLB, a company created in 2016 by the merger of Cameron International Corporation and Schlumberger. SLB’s footprint at the plant has now expanded to 3.1 million square feet.
As recently as December 2025, Louisiana Economic Development was in Shreveport to co-host an announcement touting SLB’s additional investment in 2 million square feet of space, along with plans to add 600 new employees to its current roster of 660 by the end of 2027. The growth has been fast.
“We’ve done an amazing job here. The progress has been unbelievable,” IRG President Stuart Lichter told The Shreveport Bossier City Advocate. “I think a lot of people were disappointed that this took us a while, but that was our expectation when we went in, because I love Shreveport, but it’s not the center of the universe, you know, as far as where companies’ first choices would be to locate.”…