The City Heights Community Development Corporation (City Heights CDC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Alexis Villanueva as Interim Executive Director, effective December 8th, 2022.
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To make it all happen, our Economic Development team kindly requests the help of volunteers who can assist with setting up, crowd control, activity supervision, and clean-up.
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El Cajon Boulevard is now closer to being a complete street that is safe for everyone! We celebrate this new infrastructure and recognize that more traffic safety improvements are still needed.
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The dream of free transit for youth began decades ago right here in City Heights, and that longterm effort finally came to fruition this year. Youth Opportunity Passes (YoP) are free transit passes for youth 18 years old and under, and the benefits of this program are already being felt.
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Our mission: we create opportunities for City Heights residents to shape their streets, community, city, and region; everything in the built environment ranging from transit systems to parks.
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All year long, we’ve shared stories of the community to celebrate four decades of community power, and now we’re asking you to invest in the decades to come by donating where it’s needed most.
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This Giving Tuesday, make a donation where it's needed most. Join us in keeping people housed, fed, employed, and thriving in their community.
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The image above outlines the need for donors to help finalize the art and funding for the "Unity in the Community" mural at Teralta Park!
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The key to sustainability and resilience throughout movement work, your day job and just life in general is to ask for help. To ask for support. Nobody can take on a fight, especially a fight against institutional -isms by themselves. It’s important to work in collaboration with community, family and friends.
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In celebration of the holiday season, our Economic Development team is collaborating with local businesses to host Tierra Central's first Winter Extravaganza.
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“We need spaces where we can get together as a community. A lot of workplaces don’t have headquarters or a main office anymore after COVID, so we hope to meet that need."
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Close to 100 community members met in the corner of 54th St & El Cajon Blvd to share input on the proposed Rapid 625 Route. This 200$ Million project will connect Chula Vista, National City, Southeast San Diego, City Heights and SDSU!
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Help plan the new Rapid Route 625 that will connect Chula Vista, National City, Southeast San Diego, City Heights, and SDSU, all while enjoying free tacos on us!
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“I found that I love cooking, I'm good at it, and people like it.” Luz, owner of Las Tias food truck
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For the next eight weeks, business owners will receive in-person training, resources, communal feedback, and grant funding for their business upon completion as they work to take their business to another level.
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“People across all cultures seek our food. That's when you see food goes beyond borders. Over one dish you gain friends or meet people you've never met.” Daniel, Co-Owner of The Birria Truck
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Our gratitude to the people of Coastal Roots Farm for extending an invite to New Roots farmers from the Latino and Somali Bantu gardening groups into a shared learning space for these gardeners to envision our next project: a seed start station!
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They are called The Birria Truck (@thebirriatruck) and Las Tias (@las_tiasfoodtruck) and they sell delicious Mexican food!
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“Sometimes at the end of the day, it's about survival. And survival comes with using what you know to make do with your daily expenses…”
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One thing that has totally caught me off guard was how much I can relate with the residents I work with! For example, when I do after-school programming with the kids at Hollywood Palms, I often see myself in them.
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