March 11, 2019 SJ Mulls Ways to Offset Cost of Upping Downtown Height Limits By Lloyd Alaban As part of its quest to raise downtown building heights, San Jose will consider a unique funding proposal to offset costs to the airline industry. Read More 4
March 8, 2019 Adobe’s Proposed North Tower Panned as ‘Flat, Bulky and Boxy’ By Dan Pulcrano and Jennifer Wadsworth The critique is clearly a challenge to Adobe, which supplies tools such as Photoshop to the world’s creatives, to be a little more, well, creative. Read More 7
December 3, 2018 Google Poised to Strike $111 Million Land Deal with San Jose By Jennifer Wadsworth It will take years before the tech company realizes its vision for the city’s core. But a key vote this week lays the groundwork. Read More 2
November 28, 2018 Newest Addition to Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Represents Critical Swing Vote By The Fly Susan Ellenberg’s election to the Santa Clara County District 4 seat stands to shift the board to the center in the years ahead. Read More 8
October 12, 2018 San Jose’s Moment: Google and Downtown’s ‘West Side Story’ By Scott Knies Is this finally San Jose’s moment for downtown to realize its potential as a vital and beautiful urban community? Read More 9
June 1, 2018 Op-Ed: Only Young People, Not Google, Can Make Downtown San Jose a Vibrant Destination By San Jose Inside The Google development will lead to a more vibrant San Jose. But we don’t have to wait seven years to shed the bedroom community moniker. Read More 22
April 2, 2018 BART Backs One-Tunnel Option for Downtown San Jose Extension By Jennifer Wadsworth The long-awaited BART extension to San Jose’s urban core will involve one tunnel instead of two—a big win for downtown businesses. Read More 5
November 22, 2017 San Jose Downtown Association Executive Director Scott Knies Pushes Back on Diridonification By The Fly Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association, has quite a few initiatives—none bigger than his quest to stop Diridonification. Read More 12
October 25, 2017 Downtown San Jose’s Yoga Shala Searches for New Digs After Lease Deal Fell Through By The Fly The future of longtime yoga studio in San Jose has suddenly been thrown into doubt, prompting its owner to ask the city for help. Read More 1
June 20, 2017 San Jose Receives $150K Knight Cities Grant to Fund New City Designer, Avoid RDA Pitfalls By San Jose Inside After receiving a $150,000 grant from the Knight Cities Challenge, San Jose has hired a new city designer in Timothy Rood. Read More 2
June 14, 2017 Google Unveils Plan to Set Up Shop in Central San Jose—Will Downtown Ever Be the Same? By Jennifer Wadsworth The proposed Diridon Station Googleplex has San Jose officials seeing dollar signs while local businesses, residents suspect the end is nigh. Read More 16
March 14, 2016 San Jose to Convert Vacant Plaza Hotel into Homeless Shelter By Jennifer Wadsworth San Jose is poised to spend the next six months converting the shuttered Plaza Hotel into a temporary shelter for homeless people. Read More 44
January 25, 2016 San Jose Council Reconsiders Controversial Nightclub Proposal By Jennifer Wadsworth A proposal to bring a two-story nightclub to downtown San Jose comes back for consideration at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Read More 12
October 7, 2015 Regional Minimum Wage Plan Gains Support, Could Include Controversial Exemptions By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil A regional minimum wage plan has generated broad support, but also anxiety that a segment of low-income workers will be left behind. Read More 47
August 19, 2015 Little Portugal Residents Fume over Stalled Road Work By Jennifer Wadsworth Five weeks after contractors hit a gas line, it’s unclear when work will resume on a bus route connecting East Side to downtown. Read More 15
July 17, 2015 Go Big or Go Home: SJDA Slams First Street Development Plan By Jennifer Wadsworth Plans to revamp an old office building on the corner of First and Santa Clara streets are too drab and unambitious for the city center, according to the San Jose Downtown Association. Read More 20