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And we're celebrating San Antonio's Tricentennial. 300 Voices in 300 Days on TAAN TV. And I have the pleasure of having with me today Mr. Joaquinn Arch, who will share his life, his story and his contributions to the city of San Antonio. So Mr. Arch, tell me a little bit about yourself. Where were you born?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  0:23  \r\nI was born in Inglewood, California, in the ‘70s. So my mom and dad moved out there to live that California life.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  0:31  \r\nAnd how was that?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  0:33  \r\nI don't remember very well. I moved back here when I was one. My grandmother came and got me, and I was raised here by my grandmother, and my mom and dad stayed in LA for another year.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  0:44  \r\nOh, okay. Well, where did you go to school here?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  0:47  \r\nI went to Wheatley Middle School, the great Wheatley Middle School, and then transitioned from there to St. Gerard High School.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  0:55  \r\nOkay, okay. So tell me a little bit– did you grow up with siblings or–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  1:01  \r\nNo, actually, I grew up with an older cousin, so it was me and him, my grandmother, and my grandfather. I grew up right here on the East Side of San Antonio.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  1:10  \r\nOh, wonderful. So a hometown, young man.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  1:15  \r\nI am. I am. We spent a few years in Houston after I graduated from Prairie View A\u0026M.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  1:20  \r\nOh, okay. Yeah, I know many people who graduated from that school. And so– yeah. Many, yeah, all over all over the state of Texas. I'm from Texas and so, very familiar. So have you lived in San Antonio? You came back after college–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  1:36\r\nI came back.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  1:37\r\n–and you’ve been here?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  1:37  \r\nWell actually, I stayed in Houston for six years, I was an athlete. So I played basketball at Prairie View. So I went around the world, following my basketball dreams for a little while and then decided to go on to start pursuing my profession. And I started that in Houston.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  1:58  \r\nSo well tell me, what is your profession? What do you do now?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  2:01  \r\nWell, I have many hats. So- so a lot of my upbringing have brought me to where I am today. Today, currently, we manage and run and operate a nonprofit by the name of Youth Building for the Future. Me and a couple of my childhood friends started this organization, to mentor and train athletes because we saw that there was a lack of athletes being able to transition from high school to college. And so we started that in ‘99 and we're still kicking strong today. And that's my passion. My full time is straight line management. Me and my wife have a construction company. I'm the business developer, she's the president and owner, and we've been in that business for eight years.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  2:42  \r\nSo in the construction business–\r\n \r\nJoaquinn Arch  2:43\r\nYes.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  2:44  \r\n–okay, what, tell me a little bit about that, your construction company.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  2:48  \r\nOh, so it was birthed out of– like I said, a lot of my professions and my college degrees have taken me into different walks. And so, I was working at City Hall under Sheila McNeil, and I got an opportunity to be the president of the Black Contractors Association. And so there, I was able to use my degree in community development to kind of springboard that organization and start it off and trying to get contractors into different spaces that they hadn't been into before. And so, from that position, my wife was introduced into an opportunity to work at the city. And then she had went to an interview– to interview at Judson High School when they were building a new high school. And they weren't looking for an employee, they were looking for a company. So, our company was birthed over a weekend.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  3:38  \r\nWow. And that's the high school Wagner? \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  3:42\r\nNo, Judson High School. \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  3:43\r\nSo its Judson the actual, okay– \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  3:44\r\nJudson– Judson Stadium, Judson High School–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols 3:45\r\n–the main campus, Judson. Yes, okay.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  3:46  \r\n–So she was the project manager on that project.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  3:50  \r\nOh, wonderful–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  3:51\r\nSo from there we took–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  3:52\r\n–I'm very familiar with that area.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  3:54  \r\n–So from there, we took off running. And now we do development in the area. We came back and started doing infill projects to get ahead of growth from downtown towards the East Side.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  4:08  \r\nSo have you all been involved in a lot of projects then, out this way?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  4:12  \r\nWe have. We're actually doing a lot of current street and road projects. We worked at the Alamodome on that project, we worked at the AT\u0026T Center as a PM for– with Turner Construction for the county. And we were the county's rep to make sure that the construction ran smoothly.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  4:30  \r\nWell do you all have a large team of employees or–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  4:35  \r\nWe do– \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  4:35\r\nDo you, okay–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  4:36\r\n–We're at about 12 right now–employees–and about a pool of about 100 or so sub-subcontractors. And we're very actively involved in bringing back the Black contractors organization. We're at a year now and we've grown to about 75 members.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  4:52  \r\nThat's awesome. That's an awesome accomplishment, then, for both you and your wife. Do you all have children or–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  4:59  \r\nWe do. I have two boys. Two young boys, I started late, so– \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  5:02\r\nHow old are they? \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  5:03\r\nNine and five.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  5:04  \r\nOh, okay. Those are good fun ages.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  5:07  \r\nThey are, they are. They’re busy ages, I tell you that, because they're athletes. So three or four days a week, maybe five, where we're– we’re at a gym or at a field. \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  5:16\r\nThat’s good– \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  5:16\r\nWell, I’m not in the gym.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  5:17\r\n–keep them busy–\r\n\r\n\r\n[laughter]\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  5:19\r\nRight.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  5:19 \r\nKeep them busy. And so with the program where you were helping athletes, so you're still doing that helping athletes transition from high school into college–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  5:29\r\nCollege, and then– \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  5:29\r\n–Tell me a little bit about that.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  5:33  \r\nSo what we try to– what we do is make sure that– a lot of single parents don't know the process on what it takes. And a lot of the athletes don't even know the rigorous workout regimen that you have to be on if you really want to be a collegiate athlete. And then not to mention that a pro athlete, a lot of kids aspire to be a pro. So we tell them, if you fall short from that, at least you  got to play in college. But our organization has been able to be a part of over 20 young men lives that are playing professionally and still play professionally.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  6:04  \r\nSo do you all through that promote education– \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  6:04\r\nWe do. \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  6:07\r\n–as like the number one goal or–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  6:11\r\nWell, I’ll be honest with you–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  6:11\r\n–or how does that work?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  6:12  \r\n–we promote it as a tool. So using what you've been blessed with, to get a free education–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  6:19\r\nAbsolutely. \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  6:20\r\n–and using that, in turn, to figure out what your true passion is. Because that's where we fall short a lot of times is, we're pushing education, education, and nobody's talking about entrepreneurship. Nobody's talking about, “What do you love to do?” and figure out how you can get paid at doing that. And so we try to tap into that. And investing: exposing them to real estate, exposing our youth to the stock market, just non-traditional things that we haven't been accustomed to, or afforded the opportunity to– to learn about.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  6:53  \r\nWell, how do you find these young men and women or are they mostly young men?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  7:00  \r\nNo, actually, we have a lot of females in our program as well. I like to say, “God sends them to us,” because until this year, we hadn't ever marketed. It was if you knew, you kind of came to us. If somebody told you, then that's what it was. And we're honest with people, we tell them, “If you're not serious, this is not the right program for you”--\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  7:22\r\nRight. \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  7:22\r\n–because it's during the summers with– a workout day might be five to seven hours. And that's pool, weights, boxing, and football workouts, speed and agility. So it's not just basketball we work on.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  7:36  \r\nSo when they're doing all the workouts do you have like one facility that you use or various facilities?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  7:43  \r\nWe get in where we fit in. We started off at the East Side Boys and Girls Club in the ‘90s, and then, now we work out of Antioch Sports Complex. And out of– still back at the East Side Boys and Girls Club. One of the young men that came through our program is now the executive director there, so it's funny how the world comes back around and people that we've– kind of been through our program are in a position of power now. And we don’t have to beg as much.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  8:08  \r\nYeah, what an impact you're making then. So tell me, what has been your biggest contribution to the city of San Antonio?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  8:17  \r\nI think I'm spearheading some of the growth and development on the East Side. We took an old grocery store and revitalized it. So it was the first revitalization effort on New Braunfels Street. And we're gearing up for number two right now–I have to keep that under wraps because we haven't finalized those contracts. And we are opening up our new office on Commerce Street here in the next couple of months. And so, we're homegrown, we want to make sure that the history stays, the stories remain, and that people will understand what it used to be, it can be again.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  8:50  \r\nSo, what are some other projects that you're involved in just on a personal level? I mean, I know you volunteer a lot, and you have some organizations that you're a part of. What are some other things that you do? \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  9:05\r\nMan it– \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  9:06\r\nYou sound like you’re really busy.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  9:06  \r\n–I travel. I am. I’m very busy. So I- we travel when we can. We try to travel at least two or three times out of a year. Make sure that we get away and enjoy some family time because we drag our kids around to our functions. So, you know, really not a lot of free time outside of the organizations that we belong to that support our business. So, you know, we're members of the  Hispanic Chamber, again, the African American Chamber, NAACP–wife is very heavily involved with that. Bexar County Workforce Development, she's on that board. I sit on some advisory boards for SAGE. I might help plan the event that they do every year for their big fundraiser.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  9:54  \r\nWow, you are busy–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  9:57\r\nYeah.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  9:58\r\n–Both of you are very busy. We have to get her on here and speak with her as well–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  10:00\r\nYou do, you do–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  10:02\r\nWhat do you most like about the city of San Antonio?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  10:05  \r\nI like it's a big city and a small town. That's what I like to explain. San Antonio is a perfect place to raise a family. My wife's from Houston. So we had the opportunity to be in Houston. But here in San Antonio, it's not as much competition.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  10:20  \r\nYes, it's a great place to grow a business.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  10:22  \r\nIt is, it is. So we won't be going anywhere for a while.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  10:26  \r\nYou're– this is home for you. You're here–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  10:28\r\nThis is it, this is it– \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  10:28\r\n–and you’re staying.\r\n \r\nJoaquinn Arch  10:29\r\n–this is home base. This is home base.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  10:32\r\nWell, why do you feel it's important as an African American to tell your own story?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  10:37  \r\nBecause we know it better. I grew up in a San Antonio that was– an East Side San Antonio that was upper middle class. I didn't grow up, necessarily, in poverty. My grandmother was a nurse. My grandfather was a truck driver. Down the street, the councilman lived next door. You know, the dentist's office was on east Houston. We didn't go outside of our community for much. The grocery store was Black, Handy Andy. I mean–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  11:03\r\nHandy Andy, yeah–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  11:04\r\n–that’s– that's the– that's the San Antonio I grew up in. And, you know, being able to ride your bike freely. Like, we used to ride our bikes to Brackenridge Park and all the way up to McCreless and Northstar. Like, it wasn't– it wasn't dangerous. I mean, the Wheatley Courts was what the Wheatley Courts was, but if you didn't go looking for anything, then you weren't gonna find it.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  11:26  \r\nRight. Yeah, that– you had a whole span. Yeah, that's very interesting, then, that– and times have changed, of course. \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  11:35\r\nThey have changed.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  11:36\r\nYes, so I'm sure with your children, you keep a watchful eye. You're very involved with– \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  11:42\r\nI do–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  11:42\r\n–them athletically. \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  11:44  \r\nI do. And we make sure that they understand and know where they come from. Like, during the summers, they go to the East Side Boys and Girls Club. They go to school by the Stone Oak- but we– we live on the East Side, we're here 10-12 hours a day. On the weekends, I'm here because we're doing a lot of smaller home renovation projects, to make sure that we help build the infill project from a private standpoint and not just sit around and wait for public dollars to do what we should be doing.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  12:12  \r\nNow, tell me, who has been most impactful in your life? \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  12:18\r\nI have a long list. \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols 12:19\r\nA long list?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  12:21  \r\nI do. So I grew up a lot in the Davis Scott YMCA. So we had several mentors, Kurt Brown, Nathaniel Davis, Mr. Shannon. All of my teachers– like I grew up– I went to Tynan Elementary, and those teachers really care, like, they’ll call your parents directly. They weren't sending a note. \r\n\r\n\r\n[laughter]\r\n\r\n\r\nThey were calling that house phone.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  12:46\r\nThey had a direct line–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  12:47\r\nYeah–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  12:47\r\n–to them.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  12:49  \r\nAnd then, you know, in middle school, my coaches, again, our teachers, they looked like us. I– I've been fortunate. I've had coaches and teachers that have looked like me, all the way up through– even in college. And fortunate to go to a HBCU and get to do what I love and be a part of history.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  13:12  \r\nWow, that's a great school–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  13:14\r\nIt is–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  13:15\r\n–by the way. And so, do you get to go back to events–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  13:18\r\nI do–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  13:18\r\n–there or?\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  13:19  \r\nI hadn’t been to a homecoming in a while because my kids play sports. So on the weekends, it kind of bumps into that sometimes, but I blocked it off this year. I said I was gonna go no matter what, and we might miss a game. \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  13:31\r\nYes, wow. \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  13:32\r\nSo they can experience it. We've taken them to one homecoming, and they had a great time. But I keep in touch with a lot of my teammates and friends from college. We're all still close. And fortunately for me, even my ki– guys I grew up with, they're doing well, and my college friends, they're doing well.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  13:53  \r\nAnd you are– you're doing very well here in the city and making quite a contribution to the city of San Antonio. And it's really interesting to hear your story and how you're helping, you know, young men and young women and kind of exposing them to some things that they probably would not get exposed to, you know, had they not met you–\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  14:14\r\nYeah–\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  14:15\r\n–and the team of people that you work with.\r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  14:16  \r\n –and we try to– to impart what was imparted in us. And people ask me all the time, “Why do you do what you do?” So somebody did it for me, and they didn't sugarcoat it. They told me exactly how it was gonna be, how it could be, and if you go left this what happens, and if you go right. And, you know, the signs are all around you. You have to make a choice on what you want to do with your life and what you choose to do. And, you know, there's no substitute for hard work. And that's one of the main things that we impart in the kids is, if you want to be successful and great, you have to do more than other people are willing to do because it's not going to be easy.\r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  14:55  \r\nThat's very good advice. You know, for not just young people, I think for all people. \r\n\r\n\r\nJoaquinn Arch  15:00\r\n[laughs] Yeah. \r\n\r\n\r\nSaundra Nichols  15:01\r\nSo, Mr. Joaquinn Arch. We've heard it from you, just your contributions to the city of San Antonio and I want to thank you for everything that you and your family are doing to make the city a better place to live. And so again, I'm Saundra Nichols, and we're celebrating San Antonio's Tricentennial. 300 voices in 300 days on TAAN TV.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://saaacam.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2808/collection_resources/127827/file/239687#t=0.0,925.09867"}]}]}]}