Plans were unveiled, Saturday afternoon, for a future housing development and cultural hub specifically serving immigrants and refugees.
The Refugee and Immigrant Cultural Hub (RICH) was created from the 2020 census. More than 47,000 African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian community members were contacted and counted across the Mid-City area of San Diego.
Uma Mohamed was among them. She came to the U.S. from Somalia with her mother in 1993. Now she’s raising her own children in what she considers an uncertain new world.
“You never know because my kids have a Muslim last name. People confuse them [and] still think they’re immigrants. They’re U.S. citizens they [were] born here,” Mohamed said.
The Mohamed family joined a celebration Saturday on the 2.2 acres at the intersection of University Avenue and Chollas Parkway near City Heights.
“There will be a global marketplace with housing stacked up above it,” said Brandon Martella with the Roesling Nakamura Terada …