Three local developers received a green light to build three large projects with more than 900 homes and thousands of square feet of offices in Downtown San Jose.
The City Council has approved the Icon and Echo office and apartment towers at 147 East Santa Clara Street; the Orchard Residential tower at 409 South Second Street; and the SuZaCo office and dining tower at 130-150 East Santa Clara Street and 17 South Fourth Street, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Together, the projects would add 929 housing units and 607,800 square feet of offices, shops and restaurants to Downtown.
“The progress being made in Downtown San Jose is nothing short of amazing,” Erik Hayden, founder of Urban Catalyst, told the Mercury News. “The city is in the midst of an exciting reimagining of what an urban landscape can be.”
Urban Catalyst, based in San Jose, has a $600 million plan to build two towers, known as Icon and Echo, to replace a gas station, church, parking lot and three small commercial buildings on 2.1 acres.
The 26-story Echo tower would contain 389 apartments and 8,500 square feet of ground-floor shops and restaurants. The 20-story Icon tower would contain 525,000 square feet of offices above eight levels of above-ground parking.
Urban Community, based in the city, and Canada’s Westbank teamed up for Orchard Residential, a 30-story apartment tower with 540 units and 7,500 square feet of ground-floor shops.
The tower, next to the old Bo Town restaurant, would preserve it and include its design motifs.
Bayview Development Group, based in Los Altos, is behind SuZaCo, a 75,300-square-foot office and restaurant and retail building of four and six stories, to include a rooftop bar.
The project, at the corner of South Fourth and East Santa Clara street, would include the facade of the historic State Meat Building.
Two tech giants, Adobe and Google, are also pushing ahead with separate projects to transform Downtown San Jose.
Adobe, based in the city, is preparing a fourth tower to add to its three-building headquarters campus.
On the west side of Downtown, Google is clearing the way for infrastructure improvements for its mixed-use transit village known as Downtown West.
The 80-acre project would add up to 5,900 housing units, 7.3 million square feet of offices, 500,000 square feet of shops and restaurants and a community center near the Diridon train station and SAP Center.
— Dana Bartholomew
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