SAN JOSE — East San Jose organizers devastated by a fire that destroyed a beloved former community center are relaunching a campaign to replace and rebuild the site.
After the Alum Rock Union School Board last month approved demolition of the blighted and burned former Mexican American Community Services Agency building, organizers with SOMOS Mayfair sprang back into action.
Excavators and construction contractors started work earlier this month, knocking down the Meso-American-styled walls that housed former neighborhood soccer matches and bilingual classes for Latino and immigrant residents and students…