{"id":488788,"date":"2026-10-08T04:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488788\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T04:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T04:04:13","slug":"casa-san-jose-opening-new-facility-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/488788\/","title":{"rendered":"Casa San Jose opening new facility in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Carlos<\/a>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n

Casa San Jose will open a new $6.6 million facility in Pittsburgh’s Beechview neighborhood, marking a new chapter for the nonprofit organization that has served the city’s Hispanic\/Latino and immigrant community for over a decade.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been a dream for, like, six years already. It took a very, very long time for us to get off the ground,\u201d said Monica Ruiz, executive director of Casa San Jose.<\/p>\n

Before the construction of the new facility, Casa San Jose operated out of church basements and small office spaces. Sister Janice Vanderneck, who founded the organization, says it grew from a calling to a well-oiled machine.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was only me and one bilingual volunteer, but we just were on fire with the mission, and it just kept growing,\u201d Vanderneck said.<\/p>\n

Ruiz says the new space is answering a need for Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

\u201cPittsburgh is a major city, and most major cities have a beautiful space for Latinos, and we were lacking that, and that was sort of the inspiration that we deserve nice things as well,\u201d Ruiz said. <\/p>\n

The new facility will provide a range of resources, including medical and dental services, ESL classes, caregiver classes and youth programs. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are so excited. They’re so ready to have something like this because our other spaces have just been so limited. There was never really a place for them to come and stay, and that’s what we’re really looking forward to here,\u201d Ruiz said. <\/p>\n

The opening comes at a time when ICE operations continue across the country. Ruiz believes the building sends a clear message. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe can’t hide. We’re not hiding again. We deserve nice things,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

Ruiz also sees the new facility as a tribute to Vanderneck\u2019s years of dedication. <\/p>\n

\u201cKind of thought that this was sort of a ‘thank you’ to her, to show her that all of the hard work that she’s put in all these years came to this,\u201d Ruiz said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe want this space to belong to the community. We want to find ways to gather here that really promote our neighborliness more than anything,\u201d Vanderneck said. <\/p>\n

The grand opening of Casa San Jose\u2019s new facility on Broadway Avenue is scheduled for Oct. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Casa San Jose will open a new $6.6 million facility in Pittsburgh’s Beechview neighborhood, marking a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[190823,190821,83163,11772,14834,25070,2872,14833,28236,55003,83165,21767,190824,20734,1502,6184,88,90,89,190825,190822,72],"class_list":["post-488788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-beautiful-space","tag-beechview","tag-casa-san-jose","tag-executive-director","tag-hispanic","tag-immigrant-community","tag-immigrants","tag-latino","tag-long-time","tag-major-city","tag-monica-ruiz","tag-new-facility","tag-nice-thing","tag-nonprofit-organization","tag-opening","tag-pittsburgh","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-small-office-space","tag-vanderneck","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}