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Cottage Grove Avenue commercial corridor (Woodlawn / Chatham)

CTL-E-1356 · Neighborhood · c. 1950s-present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Cottage Grove Avenue is the second major Chatham commercial corridor alongside 79th Street, with a Black-owned culinary node at 75th Street (Lem's Bar-B-Q, Brown Sugar Bakery, Soul Veg City) and significant transport, logistics, and food-production firms documented by the Greater Chatham Initiative.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-020; source research type(s): district.

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