San Jose police on Sept. 11 arrested a man for carrying a handgun while reportedly chasing an unhoused victim, pushing him to the ground and brandishing a firearm.

San José now has 91 venture-backed AI companies valued at approximately $6 billion. The four winning companies are among 23 AI startups worth $1.3 billion in downtown San José.

Less than two years after opening its doors in Downtown San Jose, the modern Italian Rollati Ristorante is closing its doors today, its owners announced. The restaurant was located on the ground floor of the luxury Miro apartment building across from City Hall. At 28 stories, Miro is one of San Jose’s tallest.

The project is on the former site of the family-owned Wheel Works tire store. The joint effort of Maracor Development and The Pacific Cos. was first announced in 2022.

The Downtown Association Board of Directors appointed Past Board Chair Gumby Marques as interim CEO.

Billed as the world’s premier AI conference, the event’s 900 sessions, hundreds of exhibits and technical workshops has drawn an estimated 25,000 attendees.

The pleas from business groups are based on revelations in an Oct. 1 police affidavit of sexually explicit comments by Councilmember Omar Torres about young boys.

A $113 million lease-buy-back deal will convert the south tower of the former Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose into a 700-bed student residence hall.

Police Chief Anthony Mata asked for prayers for the wounded officer, praised her partner for his heroism and thanked the community for its support.

Police had surrounded an apartment in downtown San Jose this morning, where one female officer was wounded by a gunshot while standing at a doorway.

San Jose will no longer wait for citizen complaints to remove graffiti, junk cars and trash from city streets in downtown and other selected areas.

The turmoil that drove Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank out of business, rocking the wider banking sector, has analysts bracing for the next possible crisis: the $20 trillion commercial real estate market.

Spinning off parks from underfunded government departments to entities that work closely with them has created “a golden age” for urban parks.

Tabard Director Rhys Williams said in an email that the theater, formerly Theatre on San Pedro Square, at 29 N San Pedro St., will be permanently closing in just over six weeks.

Building more emergency housing, adding more cops on the streets, expanding neighborhood cleanups and speeding up the permit process are key recommendations from advisory committees created last month by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. The mayor’s office today announced the recommendations released by the five “transition committees” he launched in January identifying approaches to solve what he calls the city’s most significant challenges. They are to be presented to the City Council Tuesday.

Mahan’s new committees including council members, staff and community representatives will center around key issues raised by his mayoral campaign.