Diridon Station Plan Proposes More Parking, Comes to a Vote
A blueprint to transform San Jose's main transit station into a bustling development and hub for future BART and high-speed rail trains come up for a vote Tuesday. The City Council will weigh in on the...
View ArticleDelmas Park Residents Oppose Planned Apartment Tower
An old yellow cottage in Delmas Park has become a point of contention in a debate about the future of downtown San Jose. When Dean Hanson bought the 96-year-old single-story home at the corner of...
View ArticleOakland A’s-San Jose Lease Deal Goes before City Council
Five years since signing a lease agreement with the hope of relocating the Oakland A's to a new ballpark in downtown San Jose, the City Council is poised to renew the land-holding deal for another...
View ArticleGoogle Unveils Plan to Set Up Shop in Central San Jose—Will Downtown Ever Be...
Edgar Salcedo, the 56-year-old owner of Ed’s Scientific Auto Body, has faced the prospect of displacement three times since he took over his dad’s business. In the early 1990s, the colossal arena that...
View ArticleSan Jose Receives $150K Knight Cities Grant to Fund New City Designer, Avoid...
San Jose’s “Capitol of Silicon Valley” aspirations have spurred a series of development proposals with vast goals and distant endpoints. Now it’s up to the city’s new chief architect to begin...
View ArticleSan Jose Downtown Association Executive Director Scott Knies Pushes Back on...
Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association, has quite a few initiatives—none bigger than his quest to stop Diridonification. What’s that? Well, ever since the city’s train...
View ArticleSan Jose Councilman Urges City to Hasten Long-Delayed Commercial Linkage Fee...
With San Jose lagging behind its goal of building 25,000 new homes from 2018 to 2023, downtown Councilman Raul Peralez wants to speed up a study exploring the feasibility of charging a commercial...
View ArticleDiridon Neighbors Form Coalition to Shape Google-Spurred Growth
As downtown San Jose starts to rapidly evolve with taller buildings, an expanded public transit system and Google’s mega-campus, a few neighborhood groups have joined forces to make sure residents stay...
View ArticleGoogle’s SJ ‘Downtown West’ Project Falls Behind Schedule
Google’s Diridon Station development was supposed to hit an important milestone this week. But city officials on Thursday said it’ll have to wait. The draft environmental impact report for the tech...
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