Grant Legacy Group has opened a flagship location in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, expanding the company’s national network of death-care and estate-services operations.

According to a company press release, the site occupies a restored graystone landmark in Bronzeville, an area historically associated with Black-owned banks, newspapers, hospitals and other businesses during the early 20th century. The neighborhood was once widely known as the Black Metropolis and remains a major center of Black Chicago history and culture.

The Bronzeville location will provide funeral care, probate and estate-planning legal services, legacy consulting, and products associated with Grant Legacy Group’s lifestyle brand, the company said. The release did not specify the size of the facility, its opening date, staffing levels or the range of community programming expected to follow.

Founder and Chief Executive Officer Lila Grant said the company views the opening as participation in Bronzeville’s existing business and cultural legacy rather than the introduction of a new one.

“Bronzeville built Black-owned banks and businesses when the rest of the city said it couldn’t be done,” Grant said in the release. “I am not bringing something new to this neighborhood. I am joining a legacy that was here long before me—and I intend to help protect it for the families who carry it forward.”

Grant Legacy Group describes itself as a death-care and estate-services company. Its business model combines funeral services with legal and planning work that families may seek after a death, including probate matters and estate planning.

Grant said the company’s services are intended to extend beyond individual funeral arrangements. “We do not see an ending,” she said. “We see a family we intend to walk beside for years.”

The company said the Bronzeville opening is part of a broader national expansion, with flagship locations operating in multiple cities. It also said community programming is planned in each new market, though it did not announce specific events, local partnerships or dates for programs in Chicago.

Grant, an attorney and entrepreneur, founded the company after training in both law and mortuary science, according to biographical information provided with the announcement. She was raised in Atlanta and previously grew the business from a single funeral home into a company offering end-of-life planning, probate law and related services.

The opening adds a business focused on funeral and estate planning to a neighborhood whose commercial history has often been cited as a model of Black entrepreneurship. The company’s release did not disclose financial terms related to the property restoration or the expansion.