Few people know about the community center in Long Beach in the 1970s that offered meals, summer school for youth and housing assistance to the city’s Chicano community.
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The process to develop the concept El Mercado de Long Beach (“The Market of Long Beach”) began last year with prominent Latino leaders serving on a committee and Centro CHA, a non-profit that serves the Latino community in Long Beach holding outreach meetings to see what the community desired in a center.