TruDelta, the development firm founded by lifelong West Sider James Webb, is raising funds to build a business incubator in West Garfield Park’s long-neglected Madison/Pulaski corridor.
The business incubator would be called The K Entrepreneurship Development Hub, in reference to both its location at the northwest corner of Madison Street and Kostner Avenue and the fact that north-south streets in that part of the neighborhood tend to start with a “K.” It is planned as part of Sankofa Wellness Village, a collaboration between area stakeholders and developers that seeks to revitalize a business corridor, which has never recovered from the 1968 turmoil which erupted in the wake of Martin Luther King Jr,’s assassination. TruDelta is working with the Project Forward business development organization. While they have currently raised enough money to cover a little…