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Near the corner of 71st Street and Crandon Avenue, Michael McDowell mans the flat top at Surf’s Up South Shore as he has nearly every day since 2014. McDowell, who took over the Southern seafood and wing shop franchise from his stepmother, has seen South Shore’s ups and downs over the years. Vacant lots and boarded-up storefronts still pepper 71st Street, but McDowell says the neighborhood is .
In a neighborhood otherwise reeling from violence and an opioid epidemic, the Kensington Corridor Trust recently welcomed its first commercial tenant. It's not the only community-owned commercial real estate project seeing success.
Beneficial State Bank just recieved a massive investment from the U.S. Treasury under the Emergency Capital Investment Program. How will the new federal funds change these banks' ability to reach more people?