SAN JOSE | Projects and Developments

[gillynova]

Santana West:



1st & Santa Clara (Former JC Penny)



Former Walgreens. I forgot the name of this:



Fountain Alley Feb 24, 2021



Blanco in San Pedro:



San Pedro photo:



W Julian St & Coleman Ave



Future bar(?) next to San PEdro and 188 West St James





How Miro Towers fill in from SJSU view:





Grad:



Grad fill in from SJSU Tower Hall:



Downtown SJ:



Post St on a Saturday Night (Feb 20, 2021)

[timbad]

Originally Posted by gillynova

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Fountain Alley Feb 24, 2021



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thanks, gillynova - do you know if the Fountain Alley activity in the pic is part of this project?

[craigs]

Great photos, thanks for the update!

[gillynova]

Originally Posted by timbad

thanks, gillynova - do you know if the Fountain Alley activity in the pic is part of this project?

It would actually be a part of this project!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...300924889.html

Originally Posted by craigs

Great photos, thanks for the update!

You're welcome craigs! I appreciate the kind words. It lets me know people enjoy the photos I take from around the Bay

[MayorQuinbee]

Originally Posted by rajaxson

New renderings posted from SFYIMBY for projects in DT:

https://sfyimby.com/2020/10/1071.html

Wow! Both are fantastic! but the Hayes Davidson renderings are magnificent!

[gillynova]

Top Golf



Miro:



Valley Fair:

New Capital One store opened up



Also note the long line outside of Ramen Nagi



Eataly progress:


iChina looks has some really nice glass


Spartan Heights



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Bonus - Milpitas:
The Fields phase 3

[JMKeynes]

Very nice!

The song, "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" makes SJ sound like a lame hick town, and yet now, it's a super-rich, international mecca. How times have changed.

P.S.: For the younger generation who may not know this song....

Do you know the way to San Jose?
I'm going back to find
Some peace of mind in San Jose

LA is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star

Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

You can really breathe in San Jose
They've got a lot of space
There'll be a place where I can stay
I was born and raised in San Jose
I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose

Fame and fortune is a magnet
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart you're never alone

Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are without a friend
You pack your car and ride away

I've got lots of friends in San Jose
Do you know the way to San Jose?

Oh, LA is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas
I've got lots of friends in San Jose
Oh, do you know the way to San Jose?
Can't wait to get back to San Jose

[cardinal2007]

https://sfyimby.com/2021/03/san-jose...lage-plan.html

San Jose Planning Commission Will Vote On Berryessa BART Urban Village Plan


The San Jose planning commission will review and vote on adopting the Berryessa BART Urban Village Plan as a guiding policy document in a public meeting tomorrow evening. The plan would rezone 28.9 acres surrounding the newly-opened BART station to allow for over four million square feet of commercial space and roughly 5,100 new residential units.

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I know this has been very controversial here, but I think this is a good development. Though I think, ideally on the east side of the station, I would swap the residential and office component so that one arriving at the station could get to the office more easily, while they would be more likely to walk to the station living at the apartments if they lived nearby either way if the office is close to BART on the other side either way. While the opposite is unlikely, someone driving to Pleasanton BART may just well decide to drive all the way to the office if it is too far from BART.

Either way, I hope for unbundled parking for all the office. Doesn't seem like it would make sense to charge $3 for BART and let people drive to the office for free. I wonder offices in East Bay stations like Pleasant Hill, Concord or Walnut Creek do.

[Dariusb]

Off topic for a minute. I know that San Jose has height restrictions downtown due to the airport but is downtown pretty dense?

[202_Cyclist]

[QUOTE=gillynova;9200733]Santana West:




Looking good! I bought some shares of Federal Realty today.

[homebucket]

Originally Posted by Dariusb

Off topic for a minute. I know that San Jose has height restrictions downtown due to the airport but is downtown pretty dense?

It's alright but I don't think it's particularly impressive for a city of its size. It'd be impressive for say a city like Fresno, in that it feels more like a big small town rather than an actual big city. When there are Sharks games or events downtown it feels much more lively, but on a day to day basis, it's just meh so-so. Oakland's downtown I feel is far more vibrant and urban.

[Pedestrian]

Urban Confluence Silicon Valley Picks Winner For New San Jose Landmark

The non-profit organization, Urban Confluence Silicon Valley, announced yesterday that they chose The Breeze of Innovation as the winner in their international competition for a new landmark in Downtown San Jose. The winning art piece, which the organization will gift to the City of San Jose, has a central structure surrounded by five hundred poles rising two hundred feet above the ground. between the poles, there will be a cafe, exhibition room, and observation decks for the public. SMAR Architecture Studio is responsible for the submission.

https://sfyimby.com/2021/03/urban-co...-landmark.html

Very cool IMHO

[rajaxson]

Very excited about this one as well! Its hard to tell from the renderings but I assume there's some sort of elevator that provides "equal" access to the observation deck on the top. I'm wondering how visible it's going to be in the end through these vertical straws.

Nonetheless, I think this was the best choice out of their top 3.

[dboakland]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

https://sfyimby.com/2021/03/urban-co...-landmark.html

Very cool IMHO

200 ft tall, 2500 ft from the airport clear zone? Really? Hope they ran this by the FAA.

[dirt patch]

Originally Posted by homebucket

It's alright but I don't think it's particularly impressive for a city of its size. It'd be impressive for say a city like Fresno, in that it feels more like a big small town rather than an actual big city. When there are Sharks games or events downtown it feels much more lively, but on a day to day basis, it's just meh so-so. Oakland's downtown I feel is far more vibrant and urban.

Oakland downtown is completely dead before and during covid. Go there on a Saturday afternoon: pitch dead with no retail and no nothing. New high rises going up though. Need a good example: Downtown San Diego: completely awesome and vibrant with lots of new high rises going up as we speak.

[ATLonthebrain]

Originally Posted by dirt patch

Oakland downtown is completely dead before and during covid. Go there on a Saturday afternoon: pitch dead with no retail and no nothing. New high rises going up though. Need a good example: Downtown San Diego: completely awesome and vibrant with lots of new high rises going up as we speak.

Tens of thousands of people live in/adjacent to Downtown San Diego and it is a destination in and of itself. Plus there are typically thousands of visitors populating the hotels, streets, restaurants, and area attractions (pre-COVID). Neither San Jose or Oakland will ever compare to what San Diego is today, let alone where it is going with all of the residential development which continues to advance. Not a good example in my opinion.

ATLotb

[gillynova]

Agreed with ATLonthebrain

But to dirt patch, I would say it is getting a bit more livelier. Drake's is a pretty popular destination right now and a good amount of my friends go to Lake Merritt during sunset for picnics and beer. But there was this one time were I left a concert at Fox Theater on a Thursday and it was pretty dead. Not even a homeless person on sight.

[craigs]

This is getting off-topic, but (pre-COVID) compared to San Jose, Oakland had a busier, denser downtown with taller towers, tides of commuters flooding into and out of BART stations, and more jobs than downtown San Jose. On a weekday, there's no comparison. Weeknights and weekend days are sleepy in both downtowns, but downtown San Jose has a lot of bars and can get busy on weekends and during big events like conventions, concerts, and Sharks games. It's nothing to write home about in a national sense, but it's there. Meanwhile, Oakland's got the Paramount and Fox theaters, the latter of which draws crowds for concerts, and has a ton of bars--but they are are more spread out, extending throughout downtown, Chinatown, uptown, Temescal, and into the nearby urban neighborhoods like Grand Lake, Lakeshore, and Jack London. So while SJ concentrates urban nightlife really closely within its smallish downtown borders, Oakland disperses its urban nightlife more evenly throughout its more extensive central city.

San Diego is a different beast altogether. Its downtown areas, specifically the Gaslamp Quarter and Little Italy, offer the only traditionally urban experience in that entire part of the state, whereas the Bay Area has San Francisco first and foremost, and then Oakland and San Jose. Downtown SD is not an apt comparison with the Bay's secondary and tertiary urban areas, bit it's not really comparable to San Francisco when it comes to vibrant nightlife either. And while I love Hillcrest, if we're going to include that then we're going to bring in Berkeley, Palo Alto, San Mateo and a whole slew of Bay Area nightlife districts that are more traditionally urban.

[memester]

Originally Posted by JMKeynes

Very nice!

The song, "Do You Know The Way To San Jose?" makes SJ sound like a lame hick town, and yet now, it's a super-rich, international mecca. How times have changed.

P.S.: For the younger generation who may not know this song....

Do you know the way to San Jose?
I'm going back to find
Some peace of mind in San Jose

LA is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star

Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas

You can really breathe in San Jose
They've got a lot of space
There'll be a place where I can stay
I was born and raised in San Jose
I'm going back to find some peace of mind in San Jose

Fame and fortune is a magnet
It can pull you far away from home
With a dream in your heart you're never alone

Dreams turn into dust and blow away
And there you are without a friend
You pack your car and ride away

I've got lots of friends in San Jose
Do you know the way to San Jose?

Oh, LA is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they'll make you a star
Weeks turn into years, how quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas
I've got lots of friends in San Jose
Oh, do you know the way to San Jose?
Can't wait to get back to San Jose

The song was released in 1968, more than 50 years ago. Santa Clara was still orchards and orange groves in 1968.

[NYC2ATX]

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