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Article: Investing Big Money, Lending Their Fame; Celebrities Bolster Business in Prince George's
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- The Washington Post
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- October 4, 2004
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Last year Shanga Hankerson, son of singer Gladys Knight, was
reading a newspaper story when two things caught his eye. The story
said that Prince George's County had a median household income
approaching $60,000 and its population was 63 percent black.
Hankerson, who owns two restaurants in Atlanta, arranged to tour
Prince George's, a trip that convinced him to open his next Gladys
Knight and Ron Winans' Chicken and Waffles restaurant in Landover.
"It just felt right," he said. "When I got there all I could see was
that it was bustling."
The restaurant is scheduled to open in January at the Boulevard at
the Capital Center. It will be near the 12-screen movie theater owned
by basketball ...