{"id":569,"date":"2026-06-09T10:34:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:34:45","slug":"asian-resource-center-planned-in-stone-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"Asian Resource Center planned in Stone Oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Community members, politicians and business leaders gathered in a muddy clearing to break ground on a first-of-its-kind community center.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=567\">Texas confirms 5 New World screwworm cases as federal response intensifies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The grove of trees didn\u2019t look like much Friday, when officials carefully stepped between rocks and squishy earth at the groundbreaking off of Stone Oak Parkway, but soon it will become the Asian Resource Center of San Antonio (ARCSA).<\/p>\n<p>The new community center will create space for gatherings, education and celebrating culture for San Antonio\u2019s diverse Asian community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not just breaking ground for a building, we\u2019re laying a foundation for a vision,\u201d said Elisa Chan, ARCSA\u2019s board president.<\/p>\n<p>ARCSA organized in 2023 and has been raising funds for its Asian Resource Center with its annual Asian Festival, which drew a crowd to Hemisfair in early May.<\/p>\n<p>Construction will start this year on a 10,000-square-foot building with a banquet hall, reception hall, conference room and a garden.<\/p>\n<p>Chan hopes to open the center in May or June of 2027. ARCSA could be expanded after several years with a second phase of construction adding offices and classroom space.<\/p>\n<p>The center will focus on educational and cultural learning, including opportunities for local youth. Chan said that could include cooking classes and arts activities that teach origami, tea ceremonies and the Chinese game mah jong.<\/p>\n<p>Chan said those opportunities would be open to Asian Americans in San Antonio, but would also be there for the general public. She welcomed community members from across San Antonio to come to events to talk, eat and learn more. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Asian community is very, very diverse,\u201d Chan said. \u201cWe don\u2019t necessarily speak the same language, but we\u2019re all American and we all live in San Antonio.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=565\">How the Kerrville Folk Festival became a hub for recovery \u2014 and hope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chan was born in Taiwan, studied in mainland China and emigrated to Texas in 1988. She and her husband founded a San Antonio-based engineering design firm called Unintech Consulting Engineers. Chan represented District 9 on San Antonio City Council between 2009 and 2013, when she stepped down for an unsuccessful run for state senate.<\/p>\n<p>Kausi Subramaniam, ARCSA\u2019s board secretary, added that it created a collective space that could be used for nonprofits and events. Subramaniam is co-owner of Kalaya Indian Performing Arts and is president of Anuja SA, an organization that promotes San Antonio\u2019s sister city relationship with Chennia, India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have anything like this in San Antonio,\u201d Subramaniam said. \u201cThe Asian community lives in this part of town, in [City Council districts] 8, 9 and 10.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subramaniam and Chan said there are also opportunities to address mental health needs and workforce development for Asian Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to provide those resources in a space people can feel safe in,\u201d Subramanian said.<\/p>\n<p>Chan added that ARCSA plans to be self-sustaining. There will be a mix of free and paid programming. There will also be opportunities for other groups and organizations to rent out space at ARCSA.<\/p>\n<p>Philanthropy has played a key role in getting ARCSA to this point, Chan said. H-E-B donated $300,000 and Tim\u2019s Oriental Seafood donated $250,000 for naming rights of rooms in the center and to support the center\u2019s construction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt marks the beginning of construction, but it also marks a new beginning for our community,\u201d Chan said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantoniomovingreport.com\/?p=563\">A San Antonio middle school is banking on the sports medicine industry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers say the new center will create space for gatherings, education and celebrating culture for San Antonio\u2019s diverse Asian community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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