community summer 2022
Asia Pacific Cultural Center’s New Building
As the Asia Pacific Cultural Center (APCC) celebrates its Lua Pritchard, Executive Director, explains the vision: 25th anniversary, the community has recognized the need for replacement of the current cultural center building. The “Upon completion, the space will have a bigger current location of APCC has served tens of thousands auditorium that will fit up to 500 people. It will of community members over the past decade within the have, for the first time, a full commercial kitchen former community center operated at South Park. and a demonstration kitchen to teach new classes for the Asia Pacific Culinary Program and The current building has been modified many times over Entrepreneurship Program. We will also have our the years to accommodate various uses, but even with own Asia Pacific library. In addition, we will create these updates the building doesn’t offer spaces designed to and implement the first Asia Pacific Night Market effectively support the programs and events they provide. in the South Tacoma Way business district. We will have a full art gallery to display multiple artists’ visual art pieces throughout the year that are Asia The aging infrastructure of the building provides other Pacific related. All of these will be on top of so operating challenges as well. So the organization has much we already do for the community.” been talking with the community over the course of several years about developing a new building designed to better support the non-profit’s cultural programs. Everyone who is interested is encouraged to visit the website to make a donation, volunteer or become a member for the APCC. APCC is actively preparing plans in coordination with Metro Parks to replace the existing building with one For Additional Information providing more functional space for visitor experiences. Asia Pacific Cultural Center The proposed plan is for construction of a new building asiapacificculturalcenter.org within the existing building’s footprint. SHOWCASE MAGAZINE
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