SAN JOSE | Projects and Developments

[gillynova]

Full credit goes to aphelion2100 for posting this first in another forum. This is going to be the future jewel for San Jose. Good bye to PWC's view though haha.

I'm just trying to imagine the views driving east on 280 -> 680 or even 87. It's going to be some beaut

Hell, even flying in to SJC from this route. Whatever company that picks this building up and has a bright signage will have so much exposure

A major real estate company is eyeing development of a mega office campus in downtown San Jose, near the banks of the Guadalupe River, a project that could accommodate several thousand workers, municipal documents show.

The proposal visualizes a sleek, curving office complex that would approximate the contours of the nearby Guadalupe River as it meanders near the Children’s Discovery Museum.

Boston Properties has proposed a development that could contain up to 1.8 million square feet of office space, the equivalent size of a big regional shopping mall. If built to that size, as many as 9,000 people could work in the offices.

“It is too early for us to comment on this application at this time,” Helen Han, a marketing director with Boston Properties, said in an email response to this news organization.

Originally Posted by aphelion2100

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/...azon-facebook/


















Rendering courtesy of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Just to give you an idea how big this building would be, it would have more square footage than the new Salesforce tower in S.F. which is 1.4 million sq.ft. which coincidentally is 50% owned by Boston Properties. Other than the Apple Headquarters building, could this new proposal be the second largest single office building (sq.ft. wise) in the bay area?

WOW!

[gillynova]

Valleyfair Update:

[SFBuildings888]

Originally Posted by gillynova

Full credit goes to aphelion2100 for posting this first in another forum. This is going to be the future jewel for San Jose. Good bye to PWC's view though haha.

I'm just trying to imagine the views driving east on 280 -> 680 or even 87. It's going to be some beaut

Hell, even flying in to SJC from this route. Whatever company that picks this building up and has a bright signage will have so much exposure

It is downright ugly.

[gillynova]

Valleyfair + Santana Row:































Where Volar should be:

[cardinal2007]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/...title-lot/amp/

Huge office, retail, residential complex proposed in downtown San Jose at choice Valley Title lot

SAN JOSE — A million-square-foot mega complex of offices, homes and retail would sprout in downtown San Jose, under new plans that have been proposed by one of the city’s most active real estate entrepreneurs.

The proposal, if approved by the city, could be built on a choice downtown property that’s come to be known as the Valley Title site at 300 S. First St.

The mixed-use development would consist of 1.2 million square feet of offices, 50,000 square feet of retail and restaurants, 332 residential units and 645 parking spaces, according to preliminary plans submitted to San Jose officials.

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[gillynova]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/02/...ley-title-lot/







Concept art. It won't look like this with the river for sure.

[SFBuildings888]

They say the Valley Fair expansion is supposed to be finished by spring. There is no way they are going to finish the construction by spring. Looks like they are behind of schedule.

[gillynova]

I don't think so too, even if Spring ends in June 21.

To me, it's looking more of an August opening.

[cardinal2007]

The facade is a bit different on the top floors

[gillynova]

via aphelion2100

The city Planning Commission last week approved a permit for the demolition of the 27 S. First St. structure, putting Dallas-based developer Alterra Worldwide one step closer to breaking ground on a proposed 22-story residential tower.

The project includes 374 market-rate residential units and a 35,712-square-foot retail space on the bottom floor. The new development follows a raft of forthcoming projects in downtown San Jose, as developers see an opportunity to build housing before BART eventually extends to Diridon Station in the heart of the city.

Alterra Worldwide still has get two additional permits before the building will be demolished for construction, which Schoennauer anticipates will take up to six months.

Further complicating matters, developers have to contend with rising construction costs, labor shortages and finding investors, which often takes time, said Scott Knies, executive director of the San Jose Downtown Association.

“You’re not going to see a building being demolished tomorrow,” he said.

Still, Schoennauer said Alterra Worldwide plans to break ground on schedule and already has a contractor in mind.

http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2019/03...AF5jHhLUK6PjOc

[gillynova]

Credit goes to aphelion2100

The huge village that’s being proposed in north San Jose would contain one million square feet of offices, 2,000 homes, 320,000 square feet of retail, a movie complex, an amphitheater and a 150-room hotel, according to preliminary plans submitted by developer SiliconSage Builders.

“This is going to be a mega village,” said Sanjeev Acharya, chief executive officer with Sunnyvale-based SiliconSage Builders. “The idea is to create a place where people can come and spend half a day.”

The project is somewhat scaled back in size from the original plans for a 31-acre project with 3,000 homes and 500,000 square feet of retail. With fewer homes and less retail on less acreage, the development will be more compact. That, in turn will give it more of an urban village look and feel.

Potentially 5,000 people could work in the development’s office buildings, once they were all built.

“We also want to include a movie theater and an outdoor amphitheater,” Acharya said.

Originally Posted by aphelion2100

https://www.mercurynews.com/location...unty/san-jose/









Renderings courtesy of: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Just a thought-- maybe a thousand less housing units & more offices might be a better build out here since we still need to improve our J/ER ratio.

[gillynova]

Downtown San Jose:





Old JC Penny Building:

[cardinal2007]

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/...ler-buildings/

San Jose: Anticipating Google campus, City Council approves taller buildings

After more than a decade of debate over how tall buildings in the nation’s 10th largest city should stand, San Jose’s notoriously squat skyline is finally set to rise in the coming years.

The ability to build upward will allow companies — particularly Google, which is planning to build a large campus west of Highway 87 — access to real estate in the sky that has previously been off limits.

The City Council set the change in motion when it voted unanimously this week to allow higher buildings downtown and near Diridon Station to the west despite intense opposition from members of the airport commission and critics who worry the city is kowtowing to Google.

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Courtesy u/SJCspotter Reddit (somewhere between 2009-2013, downtown towers are even closer to the airport now)

[gillynova]

^^ I've always liked that angle of downtown San Jose.

I was about to say, I don't see Silvery Towers there but then I saw your comment saying it was taken somewhere between 2009-2013 haha

[gillynova]

Some pics of Valleyfair's expansion:

[gillynova]

The Graduate update:







SJSU Rec Building:





Random pics:









Future SJSU Science building will take place here.

[cardinal2007]

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/...e.html?ana=twt

Jay Paul Co. explains why it's bullish on San Jose as it drops hints about highly anticipated CityView redevelopment

Jay Paul Co. surprised many real estate insiders when it burst into the San Jose market last summer, decisively spending $283.5 million on CityView, a block-sized, mixed-use campus in the heart of downtown.

The San Francisco-based developer is led by and named for Jay Paul, its notoriously private, but also well-proven founder. The company has a reputation for making high-quality buildings that draw some of the largest tech giants in the world as tenants, including Google, Facebook, Amazon.com and Microsoft Corp.

“When [Jay] wants to do something, he proceeds quickly, and he has the economic wherewithal to compete with a REIT or any of the largest developers really in the world,” Phil Mahoney, executive vice chairman for Newmark Knight Frank, told a luncheon crowd at a Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Silicon Valley event in San Jose last week.

Mahoney, who has worked on leasing buildings with Jay Paul for more than two decades, spoke alongside Janette D’Elia, Jay Paul Co.'s chief operating officer, during the panel event at the San Jose Capital Club in downtown.

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Rumors erupted shortly after the purchase that Jay Paul already had a tenant, the most prominent of the whispers being that Menlo Park-based Facebook was looking closely at the site.

But last week, Mahoney and D’Elia shrugged off talk of tenants in tow.

“The rumors that it's already leased.... if that's true, let us know,” Mahoney laughed. “It'd be nice if it was true, but it's not. Certainly, we've talked to different groups about different parts of it … but it's still a pretty premature to talk about who any of the end users are going to be.”

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Rumors of FB coming down have been exaggerated it seems.

[cardinal2007]

[gillynova]

Pics of downtown the other day



Sparq:



Silvery Towers:


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The James:





Randoms:

[gillynova]

SJSU Rec Building:





The James: