Who We Serve

PACE’s primary service area encompasses 53 zip code areas in Central Los Angeles, the South Bay & the San Gabriel Valley.

PACE’s target communities cut a rainbow shaped swath through the Los Angeles area, roughly reflecting the hop-scotch path of waves of Asia Pacific Islander (API) & Hispanic immigrants as they first moved into the Los Angeles area. This area runs from Redondo Beach Boulevard in Gardena on the south, to Western Avenue on the west & Vermont Avenue on the east, in a continuous NNE direction through Central Los Angeles where the boundaries are the 110 Freeway on the east & Vermont Avenue on the west & the 60 Freeway on the south.

PACE’s target community then continues in its northeast arc through Chinatown, & including the ethnic enclaves of Koreatown, Little Tokyo, Filipino Town & Thai Town. It then continues east along Interstate 10 through the San Gabriel Valley to the 605 Freeway on the east. PACE has a total of 34 physical program locations within this area including 28 Early Childhood Education Centers scattered through the area, an office in Gardena, PACE’s Headquarters Office just west of downtown & a refugee job development program & a business development center office in El Monte. Additionally, PACE has 9 separate affordable housing sites with 190 units of affordable housing in this area. It should be noted that PACE’s Business Development Center target communities extend west to the Pacific Ocean & the Environmental program extends east to the Arizona border & south to the Mexican border. The people served by PACE have been particularly hard hit by the current economic downturn.