Located in downtown San Jose, Aura will offer luxury apartments walking distance to great transit, adjacent to freeways, parks, museums and theaters including San Pedro Square Market, San Jose Museum of Art, Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, San Jose State University, Japanese Friendship Garden, Tech Museum of Innovation, and the California Theatre.
Aura will have a leasing office on the 1st floor mixed with residences. Also featured, a grand lobby with smart mailboxes to accommodate packages from Amazon, a community room, fitness room with personalized programming and a pocket park.
Sparq is a 105 Unit complex in Downtown San Jose’s lively SoFA District. Not only are residents well-positioned to enjoy SoFA’s many festivals such as First Fridays, but they can walk to work downtown, hop on the VTA or take the DASH Downtown Area Shuttle to Diridon Station. The building itself will be no ordinary building. It’s interior and exterior design draws inspiration from the innovative culture that drives Silicon Valley and from the SoFA District that is its home. Vintage, art-minded, visually expressive and ‘creative experience’ design styles will all come together to form a truly unique place to call home. Sparq will be both a place to live and “a place where ideas grow”. Sparq broke ground July 2017.
Sparq at the corner of 1st St and Reed St across the street from the Pierce is right at the edge of the SoFA district about a block from I-280. Replaces an Enterprise car sales lot with a 7 story apartment building including 3000sqft of commercial space in the ground floor.
Auzerais and Sunol and another building behind it under construction at the old Ohlone place. This was supposed to be 3 towers, but it got downsized to 1 tower and 2 mid rises
SAN JOSE — Google’s proposed transit-oriented village would be a catalyst to connect people and nature with an array of experiences, a grand plan that would integrate the game-changing project with numerous adjacent neighborhoods, according to a presentation by the company Wednesday night.
The search giant sketched a vision of an innovation loop, a social and cultural walk, a farmer’s market in front of the Diridon Station, and numerous open spaces, along with office buildings for its employees, as well as homes, retail and restaurants that would sprout as part of the company’s proposed community. The presentation was made to the Station Area Advisory Group. The start of the presentation was delayed by a noisy protest.
In San Francisco, the tech community continues to face an angry backlash for pushing out locals, artists and the elderly. Meanwhile, 50 miles south, Google has announced plans to partner with the City of San Jose to build a tech village dubbed “The Grand Central Station of the West.” Experts see this South Bay development as a way for Google to “do it right” and build an inclusive development around a transport hub with lots of public open space and affordable housing.
Why are some people calling it a new template for the tech campus? Alison van Diggelen reports on a tale of tech in two cities for the BBC World Service…
Google has begun to lay out a high-level vision for San Jose’s Diridon Station area, a 240-acre swath of land around the city’s primary transit hub where the company has dreams of building a massive mixed-use campus.
But barely as Joe Van Belleghem, senior director of development for Google, cleared his throat to start a presentation that would outline a framework for long corridors filled with retail, homes, art and a cluster of office buildings, more than a dozen city residents marched in, banner and signs in hand.
20-story downtown San Jose office tower eyed near Google transit village, Adobe HQ
SAN JOSE — A gleaming new office tower is being proposed in downtown San Jose on what’s touted as one of the city’s best corners, a potential landmark poised to be a catalyst to help revive a key street in the community’s urban heart.
The development is planned for the southeast corner of Park Avenue and South Almaden Boulevard, and would rise 20 stories and total 750,000 square feet...
This office will be kitty corner from the Adobe HQ.
Big north San Jose live-work development of offices, shops, homes is proposed
SAN JOSE — A big mixed-use development is being eyed in north San Jose, an ambitious project that developers tout as a live-work complex of offices, homes and retail which could help ease the region’s traffic woes.
Sand Hill Property, the developer and owner of the project site, has requested a preliminary review of a proposal for 505,000 square feet of offices, 800 residential units and 13,000 square feet of retail on 9.3 acres at the southwest corner of North First Street and Orchard Parkway in San Jose.
Santana Row developer submits plans for 300 residential units near shopping center
The developers behind San Jose's popular Santana Row mixed-use retail center are revamping and restarting plans to build hundreds of residential units around their signature shopping hub.
Recent plans submitted to the city for the nearly 3-acre site at 358 Hatton St., known colloquially as Lot 12, show Federal Realty Investment Trust aims to build 300 residential units in two six-story buildings stretched along Hatton Street between Olson Drive and Hemlock Avenue. Public documents show the development would include both above- and below-ground parking.
Hotel proposed near San Jose airport, Marriott brand eyed
SAN JOSE — A Marriott hotel could rise near San Jose International Airport under a proposal being floated by the developers of the Coleman Highline office complex.
The proposed hotel would contain 175 rooms, rise five stores and total 120,000 square feet, according to documents on file with San Jose planners.
The Coleman Highline development, located on Coleman Avenue and adjacent to Avaya Stadium and the San Jose airport, could eventually contain 1.5 million square feet of office development along with ground-floor retail spaces.
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