More details on Google's potential move to downtown.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/0...sion-downtown/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/0...formal-launch/
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Mountain View-based Google and the city of San Jose are discussing a potential mixed-used development that could include more than 6 million square feet of office and research space, potentially making it the company’s largest collection of tech offices. If built, it would be larger than the search giant’s roughly 3.1-million-square-foot Mountain View headquarters, known as the Googleplex, which currently is its biggest U.S. work hub.
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Google’s downtown-village quest gets help from San Jose
San Jose city staff Friday proposed selling more than a dozen downtown properties to Google, to help the search giant amass the land it wants for an enormous tech campus that would bring up to 20,000 jobs and transform the Diridon Station area.
Mountain View-based Google would obtain 16 parcels from the city of San Jose and the San Jose Redevelopment Agency’s successor, if the negotiations bear fruit, according to a proposed exclusive-negotiations agreement released by the city on Friday.
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BTW this section of downtown is right under the airport flight path so buildings may be capped as low as 100ft in height above ground level.