Horace Bullard
Horace Bullard (1938-2013) was an American entrepreneur who founded the
Kansas Fried Chicken chain, and later acquired properties in an ambitious proposal to revitalize Coney Island.[1]
Business ventures
Bullard started Kansas Fried Chicken, named after
Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise. Bullard was from East Harlem, and of African American and Puerto Rican heritage, and infused flavors from these communities. The successful franchise eventually closed, though it has a legacy in the many unaffiliated Kennedy Fried Chicken
restaurants that grew up afterward, largely started by people in the Afghan American community.
Bullard used some of his restaurant profits to accumulate properties in Coney Island, with an aim of reviving its amusement industry. He bought the
Giuliani Administration was less supportive, and pushed the old Steeplechase site to be a minor league baseball stadium, which is known today as Maimonides Park
. Giuliani also controversially ordered the demolition of the Thunderbolt without notice to its owner Bullard.
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-03.