Owner Greg Dulan, left, speaks with a staff member inside the kitchen at Dulan’s on Crenshaw, a family-owned soul food restaurant facing a balloon loan deadline. Dulan’s has been a cultural anchor in South Los Angeles for more than three decades.

Photo by Stephen Oduntan

By Stephen Oduntan

Contributing Writer

CRENSHAW — On a recent afternoon inside Dulan’s on Crenshaw Boulevard, the phones never stopped ringing. Owner Greg Dulan juggled calls from suppliers, customers, and reporters, pausing only to underline the challenge that could define his restaurant’s future: parking.

“The K Line took away 400 parking spaces on Crenshaw,” he said bluntly. “I couldn’t wait for the city to do it. I had to solve it on my own.”

For more than three decades, Dulan’s has been a cultural anchor in Sout

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