The nonprofit Asian Resource Center of San Antonio is leading a capital fundraising campaign to build a community center on the North Side.
A Chinese dragon-themed performance dances through Alamo Plaza during the Battle of Flowers Parade last week. Members of San Antonio’s Asian community are mobilizing to create an Asian community center in Stone Oak.Our spring member drive is happening now. Will you help us reach our goal of $50,000 by May 13 so we can reach even more San Antonio readersAccording to preliminary plans, the center should open on more than four acres of land in 2027, though the location has not been announced.
“I am determined to make it happen in partnership with the county and the board leadership, who have already contributed enormously to get project off the ground,” he said. “We have different languages, we have different cultural backgrounds and different traditions, but also different religions and different geopolitics,” Chan said. “But we’re all Americans. … I truly believe ignorance sometimes is the main cause for distrust, hatred and conflict.”
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