Mid-South Planning and Development Commission

CTL-E-0912 · Organization · other · early 1990s

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Early-1990s community planning commission with an Afrocentric vision; won major city commitments.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from BVM-005; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-BVM-005:org-mid-south; source research type(s): organization.

Sources

WUOT/NPR (2022-10)

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