Do you have a connection with visual art and hope to develop your artistic and professional skills? Are you a current high school student or recently graduated from a local City Heights campus? If this sounds like you, our upcoming youth-led mural project at Tierra Central, Piece X Piece, is for you!

City Heights Community Development makes this announcement with such excitement and hope for our business community. Personally, I make this announcement with jubilance but also so much emotion for how much it means to come back to the community and corridor that I knew so well going up in City Heights.

We are still shocked at the treatment of Mr. Andrés Argüelles Álvarez and are thrilled to announce he’s been accepted into the next training cohort of the San Diego Food Justice Project! Click to read a statement on the issue of street vending and racism from our friends at the Consulate General of Mexico.

Join us Friday and Saturday, April 14-15 at Tierra Central for a party celebrating Cambodian culture through food, music, traditional dance, and more.

Congratulations to the second cohort of San Diego Food Justice Project students! Last week, our Economic Development team joined business owners and partners to commemorate students’ completion of the course.

We visited Gaius and Enoch, the partners behind Abule Afro Market and Eatery, at their University Ave. restaurant. Abule sits in one of City Heights emerging business hubs, near the 805 freeway and our symbolic ‘We Love City Heights’ mural.

After decades working to de stigmatize and decriminalize street food vending, our team is appalled by these attacks and we stand alongside those neighbors working to earn a living on sidewalks, from food carts or trucks, and from their home-based catering work. See more in the statement below from our Interim Executive Director, Alexis Villanueva:

Diseñado para movilizar y equipar a los emprendedores, la experiencia de aprendizaje de 8 semanas se ve reforzada por una red de personas ingeniosas y fiables, entre ellas nuestro equipo de Desarrollo Económico..

Designed to mobilize and equip entrepreneurs, the 8-week learning experience is enhanced by a network of ingenious and dependable people, including our Economic Development team.

El Proyecto de Justicia Alimentaria de San Diego (San Diego Food Justice Project) brindará cursos de capacitación y becas de $2,500 hasta $7,500 para habitantes del condado de San Diego.

Hoặc Tài trợ này được trao cho bất kỳ doanh nghiệp nào định hướng kinh doanh thực phẩm/tập trung vào kinh doanh thực phẩm!

Last Thursday, our Economic Development team partnered with the city of San Diego’s Economic Development team, the City Heights Business Association, and Council President Sean Elo-Rivera’s office for a business walk along University Ave. 

Economic Development team members Tom, Sonia, Sergio and, Development Manager, Yaneth, share what drove them to the City Heights CDC.

City Heights CDC, along with our partners, Vecinos de City Heights and Mo Human, began its training with a new cohort of Promotoras in City Heights.

“It’s not just selling food, like a frozen bag of croquettes. It's about families gathering at their table having our cheese breads. It's an honor, families getting together and enjoying something we made.”

Inspired by the Cambodian food scene in Long Beach, Somnang, a Cambodian-American raised in City Heights, shares her inspiration which led to the opening of her micro-kitchen, Lucky Sahn Flavors of Cambodia. 

Brandon Renteria, owner and creator of the brunch food truck, The Funky Frenchie, is a recipient of the San Diego Food Justice Project initiative.

We’ve hosted a lot of community events over the past 40 years, but the Winter Extravaganza may have been one of the most fun winter events we’ve ever put on!

After many months of deliberation and community engagement, we settled on the name ‘Tierra Central’ because of this idea of ‘middle ground’ or an in-between space, where anyone from the community could feel welcomed and celebrated.

The San Diego Food Justice Project is celebrating the graduation of our first cohort of business owners!

The cohort began with 40 business owners and entrepreneurs, and 38 of them recently completed an eight session training course, qualifying them for grant funding of up to $7,500!