State Street / South Parkway Black business corridor

CTL-E-1374 · Neighborhood · 1900s–1930s; c. 1908-1961

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

BVM-005 established that State Street (especially 35th-39th) concentrated Black-owned and Black-financed development, while the Regal/Savoy/South Center complex at 47th and South Parkway was principally white-developed and financed until S.B. Fuller bought the Regal in 1961. W4 encodes this distinction as the ownership-pattern anchor of Black commercial geography.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from ECON-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-ECON-001:ECON-059; source research type(s): business_district.

Sources

CTL-DR-BVM-005; NPS Black Metropolis Thematic Nomination
CTL-DR-BVM-005
CTL-DR-BVM-005 working files
blackpast.org; CTL-DR-BVM-005

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