Killer Mike and T.I. have gotten one main step nearer to reopening a historic seafood restaurant of their hometown of Atlanta.
In response to a report from WSB-TV on Wednesday (December 27), Tip and Mike secured a mortgage simply days earlier than the vacations which is able to enhance job alternatives across the Bankhead Seafood location and make investments in the neighborhood.
The mortgage was backed by the Georgia Banking Firm, and described as marking a “pivotal second within the progress of Bankhead Seafood, a restaurant deeply rooted in the local people.”
In a press release, Tip mentioned: “Right this moment’s funding serves as a profound testomony to the broader imaginative and prescient we’ve cultivated at Bankhead Seafood. It’s thrilling to affix forces with leaders like Greenwood—whose dedication to uplifting the group echoes our similar ethos. That is an thrilling second in our group’s work to foster a legacy of mutual prosperity and assist.”
Killer Mike added: “This can be a transformational milestone for our enterprise, and the broader Southwest Atlanta group,” Killer Mike mentioned within the announcement. “I prolong my deepest appreciation to Greenwood and GBC, whose partnership right this moment supplied us with the sources we have to kickstart Bankhead’s future and re-build a group gem. Ryan Glover and Paul Decide proceed to exemplify the essential position that Black entrepreneurial collaboration has in our financial empowerment and unity.”
As beforehand reported, Bankhead Seafood introduced it was closing in January 2018 after greater than 50 years of serving the Atlanta space. In an effort to put it aside, Killer Mike and T.I. purchased the enterprise in 2019 together with the title, trademark and official recipes. COVID definitely slowed the method, however in 2021, they filed constructing permits to rebuild it, and it’s at the moment scheduled for a spring 2024 re-opening.
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Each T.I. and Killer Mike have been lively in serving to their communities all through their careers. Simply final month, the “Stay Your Life” rapper opened the doorways on an reasonably priced Atlanta housing advanced he’d been engaged on for years together with his spouse, Tiny Harris.
The Intrada Westside contains 143 flats and 25 particular items for homeless youth. In a full-circle second, the location they constructed on — which sits throughout from Heart Hill Park in northwest Atlanta — was as soon as a grocery retailer the place Tip’s grandmother would store at.
T.I. first introduced plans for the housing group in 2021.
