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.

The VTA needs to use eminent domain because of the urgency to meet its expected 2030 opening date for the BART extension through downtown San Jose.

Mayor-elect Matt Mahan's emphasis on unhoused residents resonated with respondents in the latest San Jose Inside Power Poll.

The latest San Jose Inside Power Poll finds widespread concern for the state of downtown San Jose as it emerges from the depredations of the pandemic.

A tireless advocate for community organizations and projects, Joe most recently served in a leadership capacity with the Bay Area Furniture Bank, a non-profit that transports and donates surplus furniture to families in need.

The new CEO was selected after a nationwide search conducted by the HRS Executive Search firm to replace Knies, who has led the association for 34 years and retires in November as part of a planned transition.

Thang Do, of Saratoga, was CEO of Aedis Architects and founder of SoFA Market and The Fountainhead Bar in downtown San Jose.

San Jose's venerable Fairmont has been reinvented as Signia, a new modern luxury concept hotel.

Ivan Galicia Palalia, of San Jose, allegedly followed the woman and her friends as they left the city's downtown entertainment area. He is expected to enter a plea May 3,

The VTA had said in February that it would not update its anticipated cost and schedule for the project until it awards four major contracts, including one for tunneling and trackwork slated to be finalized this summer.

Police Chief Anthony Mata said officers saw a man with a handgun pointed at other people. He said officers repeatedly asked the man to drop the gun before one officer fired shots that hit the man, who was taken to a local hospital with non-lethal injuries.

The San Jose Downtown Association is undertaking a nationwide search to replace longtime executive director Scott Knies, who was promoted to chief executive officer last week. Knies will step down Nov. 1, 2022, after 34 years with the organization, as part of a planned succession anticipated in its August 2020 strategic plan.

The venerable Café Stritch will be reinvented as a new venue in the coming months as the keys are turned over to the jazz bar’s former general manager, Andrew Saman. The establishment will be known as Mama Kin, Saman says, and will continue to book jazz shows while expanding with other types of music.