SAN JOSE | Projects: Under Construction, Approved, and Proposed - Page 20

cardinal2007 · #**381** Posted **Dec 5, 2018, 5:10 PM**

The meeting last night went well into the night, past midnight. With the city council unanimously agreeing to sell the land to Google.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/...ale-today/amp/

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San Jose City Council approves sale of land to Google in meeting marked by arrests, protests

In a landmark vote early Wednesday morning after more than 10 hours of debate, protests and arrests, the San Jose City Council unanimously approved the sale of more than $100 million in land west of Highway 87 to the tech giant Google.

Mayor Sam Liccardo called the sale an important “first step” toward achieving a vibrant mixed-use development in a region that is dominated by parking lots and vacant industrial lots.

But the vote was not without controversy. Police on Tuesday arrested eight protesters who disrupted the meeting. Shortly after 9 p.m., officers used bolt cutters to remove protesters who had chained themselves to chairs in the council chambers before arresting them.

The commotion came nearly eight hours into the meeting, as Councilman Raul Peralez called on several community organizations protesting the land sale to acknowledge the financial help they have received from Google.

More than an hour later, the council returned to empty chambers, with police directing everyone but staff and press to what had been an overflow room to watch a livestream of the deliberations, fueling criticism that the city was operating behind closed doors.

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SLO · #**382** Posted **Dec 6, 2018, 4:47 AM**

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Article on the vote:

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/loca...501877221.html

Sounds like a tough choice - Google or permanent homeless tent encampment...

gillynova · #**383** Posted **Dec 8, 2018, 10:36 PM**

Had Chipotle earlier today and took a picture of the airport near Eastridge.

Just imagine how different this place will be in ~20 years. Hell, even in 5 years with the VTA expansion from Alum Rock to Eastridge.

gillynova · #**384** Posted **Dec 10, 2018, 7:08 AM**

Sparq:

The Graduate:

gillynova · #**385** Posted **Dec 14, 2018, 7:12 AM**

More Updates:

Graduate:

Modera:

Silvery Towers:

gillynova · #**386** Posted **Dec 15, 2018, 5:32 PM**

New parking garage for Valleyfair looks to be close to completion:

I'm sure they just recently renovated this, right? I don't remember there being lights around the building before (Next to San Pedro Square Market and Silvery Towers)

gillynova · #**387** Posted **Dec 19, 2018, 1:56 AM**

Hey guys! I created a new video mainly filmed in Christmas in the Park/Downtown San Jose using a new lens for my phone. I just wanted to post it here in case you are interested. If this is against the rules of the forum then I can take down the link. (Start at 18 seconds)

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gillynova · #**388** Posted **Dec 21, 2018, 12:48 AM**

Project on Senter and Tully:

fimiak · #**389** Posted **Dec 21, 2018, 9:22 PM**

wrong thread

gillynova · #**390** Posted **Dec 21, 2018, 11:33 PM**

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Here is 33 Tehama's light show that has been a year in the making. It should be live in a few weeks.

^^ This should be in San Francisco, not San Jose haha.

Glad to see there's going to be more LED lights in the city! Just imagine the national TV coverage of San Francisco when the Warriors/Giants play

cardinal2007 · #**391** Posted **Dec 22, 2018, 3:06 AM**

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/...-city-parcels/

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SAN JOSE — Google has obtained an option to buy more downtown San Jose properties in the area of its proposed transit village, an unexpected deal that indicates the search giant has yet to quench its thirst for sites to create a game-changing project in the urban heart of the Bay Area’s largest city.

The options for Google will enable it to buy several parcels near the Diridon train station, including properties now occupied by Poor House Bistro and World of Sports Memorabilia in downtown San Jose, according to Santa Clara County real estate records.

Separately, Google this week completed the purchase, as anticipated, of several government-owned properties in downtown San Jose that are deemed vital to the development of the transit-oriented project.

Full financial terms for the options that Google has obtained weren’t disclosed. County records show the properties have addresses of 82 S. Montgomery St., and 87 and 91 S. Autumn St.

Mountain View-based Google also has obtained options for other properties in downtown San Jose, according to county records and interviews by this news organization with other local property owners. Those include separate options for the Templo La Hermosa building and the Kearney Pattern Works and Foundry complex, both on South Montgomery Street.

The heightened activity hints at a steadily widening scope for Google’s proposed transit-oriented community in downtown San Jose. Google plans a development of office buildings, homes, shops, restaurants and open spaces where 25,000 people would work, including 15,000 to 20,000 of the search giant’s employees.

Separate from the growing number of options that Google has obtained, the company has completed the purchase from the city of San Jose of 10 parcels previously owned by government agencies, part of a formal agreement between the municipality and the tech titan, county files show.

Google paid $69.1 million for the parcels, which are all located in a narrow strip between the SAP entertainment and sports complex on the north and West San Carlos Street on the south. The transactions were completed on Dec. 19, county records show.

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In those 24 months, Google has spent at least $310.1 million to buy an array of properties on the downtown’s western border, including vacant lots, surface parking areas, industrial properties, commercial sites and homes, this news organization’s survey of county public records show.

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fimiak · #**392** Posted **Dec 22, 2018, 4:07 AM**

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^^ This should be in San Francisco, not San Jose haha.

Glad to see there's going to be more LED lights in the city! Just imagine the national TV coverage of San Francisco when the Warriors/Giants play

Oops just fixed it

gillynova · #**393** Posted **Dec 23, 2018, 5:16 PM**

Silvery Towers:

Modera:

Townhomes in downtown San Jose:

cardinal2007 · #**394** Posted **Dec 24, 2018, 6:41 PM**

cardinal2007 · #**395** Posted **Dec 31, 2018, 7:31 AM**

gillynova · #**396** Posted **Jan 2, 2019, 6:56 PM**

I don't normally go this route in 280/680 but I noticed that there's an Oracle logo in this building now. Has this been there or did they put it up recently?

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Also some other updates while I was out yesterday. This one is Valleyfair:

Icon Theatre is still not open...

Inside:

Outdoors that's supposed to open Spring/Summer 2019:

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Santana Row Update:

New walkways:

New parking garage:

Back of 700 Santana Row:

cardinal2007 · #**397** Posted **Jan 3, 2019, 9:30 PM**

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/..._news_headline

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Downtown San Jose's new real estate star: Gary Dillabough
Gary Dillabough always wanted to work in real estate and development, but first took a detour through Silicon Valley’s tech, startup and venture capital worlds before becoming one of the most prolific downtown San Jose real estate investors in recent history.

To be clear, he hasn’t left his past professions behind, even as he and his investment partners scooped up properties worth hundreds of millions of dollars over the past year and a half and are now embarking on multiple building rehabs and redevelopments. Instead, he’s trying to integrate the development, VC and tech worlds, mixing green building and small-scale investing technologies he invests in into his building projects. In true tech culture fashion, he eschews the title of developer for less formal monikers, like "urban community builder."

“Fortunately, a lot of the jobs I've had, whether it was in real estate or in technology, … there are all kinds of different components that I think are allowing me to see the equation just a little differently than a traditional developer,” he said in a recent interview.

Dillabough has amassed large pieces of San Jose over the past year or so, but is still a bit of a mystery in the local development world. Along with partnering with various developers, he also leads a company called Urban Community along with co-founder Jeff Arrillaga.

Among the properties he's working on: the old Camera 12 theater along Second Street, where he and investment partner Don Imwalle are aiming to bring in a new entertainment use. He also owns the nine-story building at 152 N. Third St., where WeWork is gearing up to open its newest San Jose location.

Meanwhile, his company is also working on new plans for the three-acre Valley Title property in the city’s SoFA district, which is ripe for redevelopment. The group is working on re-entitling the planned Museum Place development and expansion of the current Tech Museum at Park Avenue and South Market Street.

But the property that has received the most fanfare is the historic Bank of Italy building, which he purchased in late 2017 a limited liability company with an address that leads back to WeWork’s New York office. He’s since picked up most of the low-slung, parking-filled block around the nearly 100-year-old building at the corner of North First and East Santa Clara streets.

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SV Business Journal talks about Gary Dillabough, his investments downtown, and an interview with the guy. I'm hoping the movie theater opens up again soon.

cardinal2007 · #**398** Posted **Jan 3, 2019, 9:31 PM**

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/..._news_headline

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Meet the new generation of developers building downtown San Jose

Gary Dillabough may have plans to develop or revamp some of the most anticipated projects and buildings in downtown San Jose, but he doesn’t like to think of himself as a developer.

“Hopefully we’re people who can create an urban community or great user experiences,” said the 55-year-old real estate and venture capital investor. Dillabough, along with real estate guru Jeff Arrillaga, founded and leads a company called Urban Community, which captures the legacy he’s hoping to create as an “urban community builder.

“If we do our jobs well, that’s what people, hopefully, will say,” he said.

And while San Jose’s downtown revival story has been dominated by talk of Google and its mega campus plans, the momentum started well before the tech titan announced in 2017 that San Jose was the next “it” place.

Dillabough is part of a tenacious group of investors and developers — or urban community builders — who have been laying the foundation in recent years for San Jose’s downtown growth after several false starts.

Downtown enthusiasts say this time, the momentum is real and lasting, and while longtime developers in the area have been critical to the city’s success, downtown has been buoyed by a new generation of investors who have visions for the commercial core that reach far beyond their own property lines.

Downtown San Jose has more than 30 development projects in its pipeline totaling more than 23 million square feet of potential new office space, 7,600 new residential units and more than 650 new hotel rooms, according to Business Journal research. Those numbers include projects that have been proposed, entitled or are under construction.

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Talks about downtown developments, including the rumor that Jay Paul will rebuild City Plaza into something much larger, hopefully break up the superblock back into 3 blocks?

cardinal2007 · #**399** Posted **Jan 5, 2019, 1:20 AM**

Looks like they finally cleared out Lake Miro:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/01/...-pushes-ahead/

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Big downtown San Jose housing towers, retail, restaurant complex pushes ahead

SAN JOSE — A big development that will bring downtown San Jose two striking residential towers containing more than 600 dwellings, along with spaces for a restaurant, coffee shop and retailers, is slated to push ahead with construction this month, a realty executive said Friday.

Miro is a housing high-rise that would dramatically reshape San Jose’s skyline and become its tallest towers.

The project has cleared the hurdle of water that poured into the construction site, creating a large pond of water that had to be controlled and pumped out. That triggered a three-month delay while the water pool was steadily diminished

But now that project developer Bayview Development Group has vanquished the water woes, contractors are expected to begin pouring within the next few weeks the surface concrete slab, a necessary prelude to construction of the vertical components.

The development would include two towers that each will rise 28 stories and will also offer 18,000 square feet of commercial space, including enough room for a sit-down restaurant, a coffee shop and other retailers.

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I wonder if this and the delays with Silvery Towers are going to effectively kill any new underground parking downtown. Looking at how quickly The Graduate built up.

gillynova · #**400** Posted **Jan 7, 2019, 12:42 AM**

Some pictures of downtown for the National Championship game.