Clock is ticking for Shreveport's Regions Tower. Here’s when the lights could go out.

A SWEPCO employee posts a disconnection notice on a door of Regions Tower complex in Shreveport, La., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024.

Regions Tower in Shreveport, La., Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2024.

A SWEPCO employee posts a disconnection notice on a door of Regions Tower in Shreveport, La., Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024.

"It's been the talk of the building," one receptionist at a Regions Tower business said Wednesday. "How are we going to walk up 22 floors to get to our office?" What happens next is a very real concern. At 10:30 a.

m. Wednesday, four SWEPCO employees walked from their offices at MidSouth Tower to Regions Tower with electrical disconnect flyers in hand. SWEPCO employees discuss their plan for posting disconnection notices in the Regions Tower complex in Shreveport, La.

, Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024. The electricity, said the flyer, "is scheduled to be disconnected on Monday, August 26, 2024, or after for an undetermined duration of time.

" "This is nothing we want to do," said David Langston, the head of Customer Services and Marketing at SWEPCO, knowing that once the signs were posted the genie was out of the bottle. Steve Brocato, SWEPCO's Key Account Manager for downtown buildings, checked his phone again to make sure payment had not been received in the minutes it had taken them to walk to 333 Texas St. It had not.

He went in to see the building's local property manager one last time. With still no payment, the flyers began going up. SWEPCO employees post a disconnection notice .