SAN JOSE | Projects and Developments

[colemonkee]

Some really good designs going up in San Jose! I really like the Adobe tower and 700 Santana Row.

[cardinal2007]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/...ing-adobe/amp/

Downtown San Jose deal poised to spur big new residential tower

SAN JOSE — A new residential tower is poised to rise in an emerging downtown San Jose neighborhood, now that a veteran developer has grabbed a choice site near bustling San Pedro Square.

Swenson, a development firm, acting through an affiliate, San Pedro Life I, has bought a vacant lot that fronts on West Julian, North San Pedro and Devine streets in San Jose, according to Santa Clara County property records. The seller in the Sept. 19 deal was the San Jose Redevelopment Agency, a now-defunct city entity.

“Any development in that space must be high-rise residential,” said Christy Marbry, senior development director with Swenson, one of the Bay Area’s stalwart development companies.

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[cardinal2007]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/...ch-market/amp/

Big north San Jose office complex eyed amid hot tech market

SAN JOSE — Buoyed by tech company expansions in north San Jose, developers are eyeing a vacant lot for a big new office complex that could cater to a large tenant.

Potentially 1,700 to 1,800 people could work in the office building proposed by Hudson Pacific Properties in north San Jose a short distance from the airport.

“There has been a ton of leasing activity in the San Jose airport market and north San Jose,” said David Buchholz, a senior vice president with Colliers International, a commercial realty brokerage.

A nine-story, 350,000-square-foot office building is being proposed by Hudson Pacific Properties in a new set of planning documents filed with San Jose officials. The site, at 1601 Technology Drive, is just south of Skyport Drive and next to State Route 87.

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[cardinal2007]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/...e-diridon/amp/

San Jose: Deals clear way for 300 affordable apartments downtown

SAN JOSE — Hundreds of apartments are poised to sprout in downtown San Jose now that a property sale and key financing are in place for a project to bring affordable housing to a site near the Diridon train station.

The McEvoy Apartments project, proposed for the corner of West San Carlos and McEvoy streets, would create 319 affordable residential units in a two-stage development, according to the developer and the financer for the residential complex.

First Community Housing, acting through an affiliate called McEvoy Street, paid $13.5 million on July 31 for several parcels where the seller, 699 West San Carlos Street, now operates a metal shop, S&S Welding, according to Santa Clara County property records.

At the same time as the property purchase, the First Community Housing affiliate obtained $15.8 million in financing from Housing Trust Silicon Valley, public records show.

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[gillynova]

New bike paths in downtown are coming up:






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Did you guys ever notice these koalas on the trees?


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[gillynova]

Silvery Towers Update 9/24/2018:





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[gillynova]

San Jose is looking to lift the ban on new billboards.

On Tuesday, the City Council will vote a proposal that could clear the way for allowing billboard advertising at more than a dozen city-owned properties downtown and near the airport.

If the council approves the plan, the vote could mark a major shift in how the city approaches the issue of billboards.

Since 1972, San Jose has prohibited new billboards on city-owned land, and in 1985, leaders passed a citywide ban on new billboards. Billboards, proponents of the ban argued, created visual blight and were targets for graffiti.

But in recent years, as cities from Denver to Detroit have reevaluated their billboard policies, some advocates have suggested that allowing the large-scale advertisements creates an opportunity to generate new revenue and promote public art.

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/...ng-billboards/

[cardinal2007]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/...ok-amazon/amp/

Mega jobs hub, huge office complex, hundreds of homes, eyed at San Jose BART site

SAN JOSE — Developers have proposed a transit village near the Berryessa BART Station in San Jose that would transform a local flea market into a mega-hub for jobs and high-density housing with millions of square feet of offices and thousands of residential units.

According to a proposal filed Tuesday with city officials, more than 3 million square feet of offices and over 3,600 residential units, as well as some retail, would rise on the south side of Berryessa Road near Sierra Road, on the site of the existing flea market next to the future BART station in San Jose’s Berryessa district.

“We are significantly increasing the jobs and housing capacity on our property at the BART Station,” said Erik Schoennauer, a land use and planning consultant who is working on the project for the site’s property owner, San Jose’s Bumb family.

Prior to Tuesday’s revamped filing for the Market Park project, the plan had envisioned up to 1.5 million square feet of offices with ground-floor retail, and about 1,800 residential units. The newest proposal calls for up to 3.4 million square feet of offices and 3,650 high-density housing units.

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I know this isn't popular here since it is seen as sprawl, but I think having this much density by BART will be critical to get real ridership numbers from the BART extension, especially Phase I.

[gillynova]

Originally Posted by cardinal2007

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/...ok-amazon/amp/



I know this isn't popular here since it is seen as sprawl, but I think having this much density by BART will be critical to get real ridership numbers from the BART extension, especially Phase I.

I totally agree, Cardinal. The ridership for BART has been dormant at ~420k daily riders for since 2016.

[timbad]

Originally Posted by cardinal2007

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/...ok-amazon/amp/



I know this isn't popular here since it is seen as sprawl, but I think having this much density by BART will be critical to get real ridership numbers from the BART extension, especially Phase I.

the part you quoted sounded good, but this, elsewhere in the article, makes me ask, 'what part of 'transit village' do they not understand?'

However, a key twist has emerged with this proposal. The developers are pushing for construction of a new freeway interchange at U.S. 101 and Mabury Road, which would allow for an easy flow of traffic to and from the development.

The total cost of the interchange would be $100 million, or even somewhat more. The developers have already paid $13 million in traffic mitigation fees, and they intend to plunk down another $8 million, for a total commitment of $21 million. They hope the city of San Jose, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, Caltrans and federal agencies will cough up more cash.

“We need the interchange to be built to have a viable office market,” Borelli said.

[gillynova]

Valleyfair Renovation Update:

















Some Rendering photos incase it wasn't posted on here before:


















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Icon Theater:

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New lighting on Icon's side:

[gillynova]

Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/...-adobe-amazon/

New renderings of a proposed tower near the Tech Museum in downtown San Jose.

Developers have submitted new plans for what would be an iconic office tower near downtown San Jose’s Tech Museum of Innovation and the Center for the Performing Arts, part of what’s emerging as a major revamp of the city’s cultural district.

The office tower, consisting of 19 stories and a mezzanine level, would rise at 200 Park Ave. near South Almaden Boulevard in San Jose, potentially one of multiple projects to help connect the core part of the downtown with a proposed Google transit village to the west. The tower’s builder is J.P. DiNapoli Cos., a veteran developer that’s long been active in downtown San Jose and other Bay Area cities.

“We hope that this project will help create an active connection that goes all the way from San Jose State University to the Guadalupe River,” said John DiNapoli, president of developer J.P. DiNapoli.

Credits to aphelion2100 for posting this on another forum. https://www.skyscrapercity.com/showp...ostcount=20398

[gillynova]

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[cardinal2007]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/...near-fairmont/

Iconic office tower with rooftop gardens proposed for downtown San Jose near Fairmont

SAN JOSE — An iconic office tower to be crowned with rooftop gardens would rise in downtown San Jose, a striking project that bids to dramatically reshape the skyline of the Bay Area’s largest city and could attract a big tech company, according to a new proposal on file with city planners.

The 17-story office tower is designed to give the appearance of four separate towers and up to 2,900 people could work in the office portion of the complex, being planned on the site of a surface parking lot near the Fairmont Hotel, the proposal from veteran developer Sobrato Organization shows.

“This is unique,” said Chase Lyman, vice president of leasing and acquisitions with Cupertino-based Sobrato. “Downtown San Jose has never seen an office project like this before. It will be an iconic headquarters location.”

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https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/...enderings.html

Exclusive: Sobrato unveils highly-anticipated 'Block 8' proposal in downtown San Jose

By Janice Bitters – Commercial Real Estate Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal
Oct 11, 2018, 11:56am PDT Updated Oct 11, 2018, 12:04pm
The Sobrato Organization has submitted plans to redevelop a prime downtown San Jose parking lot with a massive 600,160-square-foot tower topped with new “sky gardens.”

The proposal, submitted Thursday, comes about eight years after the Sobrato Organization purchased the property, known as Block 8, a 1.5-acre parking lot at the northeast corner of South Market and West San Carlos streets from the now defunct San Jose Redevelopment Agency.

City documents show the glass-encased development, called Market Street Towers, is slated to rise 17 stories high.

Though the project will technically be a single structure, the building appears to branch off into four separate towers, or quadrants, on the upper levels. Two of the quadrants in the tower will be topped with rooftop gardens at about the 14th and 15th floors that span approximately 10,400 square feet and 12,700 square feet respectively. The remaining parts of the tower will stand at 17 stories.


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[patriotizzy]

I am drooling at that last proposal. Great use of the glass facade, making it interesting compared to a flat and uninspired glass curtain.

[cardinal2007]

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/...le-campus.html

Co-living startup seeks to build nearly 800 units in downtown San Jose amid Google campus plans

Starcity, a co-living development startup that is known for making “dorm living for adults,” is eyeing up a downtown San Jose property to build more than 750 units near Diridon Station, in the same area of the city where Google is also buying land for a massive new tech campus.

The San Francisco-based housing developer said Wednesday it is aiming to build its first South Bay project on a 0.77-acre site at 199 Bassett St., where developer KT Urban has already received city approvals to build an 18-story building with 304 units and 10,150 square feet of ground-floor retail.

But Starcity’s model of private rooms paired with shared spaces can boost the number of units or rooms in an apartment project threefold, the company said in a statement Wednesday morning.

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/business...m-13315458.php

Co-living startup Starcity plans over 1,000 tiny apartments in SF, San Jose

Tiny apartments are going big.

The co-living startup Starcity, which builds small apartments with shared kitchens and living rooms, plans to start construction next year on over 1,000 new homes in San Francisco and San Jose.

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Another 800 apartments are proposed three blocks from San Jose’s Diridon Station in what Starcity, which was founded two years ago and is headquartered in San Francisco, calls the largest co-living project in the country. Google is also planning a massive new office campus in the area. Both projects are scheduled to open in 2021, but still require city approvals.

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[cardinal2007]

The Graduate Oct 14, 2018:




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[cardinal2007]

Looks like they want to change museum place to be fully office instead of hotel, office and condos

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/...ugh-plans.html

Downtown San Jose developer drops hotel, apartments from massive Museum Place project

The developer behind Museum Place, a 1.4 million-square-foot downtown San Jose mixed-use development and Tech Museum expansion, is simplifying the project, shedding the previously planned hotel and residential units in the project.

Plans submitted this week to the city of San Jose show that investor and developer Gary Dillabough, who took over the project from Insight Realty earlier this year, is looking to reconfigure the previously approved tower by increasing the office space from 250,000 square feet to 850,000 square feet on the 2.3-acre site at 180 Park Ave., where Parkside Hall currently sits.

“The reality of the situation is that when you are trying to build a hotel, residential space and office, you can’t do all three in a world-class fashion, and our belief is that we want to build a world-class office tower,” Dillabough told the Business Journal in an interview Thursday morning.

That means the previously planned 184-room Kimpton Hotel and the 306 residential units that San Jose-based Insight Realty had gotten approved by the city last year would be no more. The project is now estimated to rise to about 19 stories — down from the currently approved 24 stories — and would still include parking and between 15,000 square feet and 20,000 square feet of retail space on the ground level.

Dillabough, who has become a major property owner in Downtown San Jose over the last year-and-a-half after setting off on a buying spree in the area, says he is still interested in hotel and residential projects in the city, just not at Museum Place.

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