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The agency's 21 development project areas covered about 16% of the city's area and accounted for a third of the jobs in the city. [1] It led the redevelopment of Downtown San Jose . It also cofounded the US Market Access Center and San Jose BioCenter as joint ventures with San Jose State University .
2015: Best Civic Project. The San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Journal gave its top "Best Civic Project of the Year" award to NASA and Google for their landmark ground lease of the 1,000-acre Moffett Federal Airfield. 2015: Bright Idea. Under the Federal Jurisdiction, the "2015 Bright Idea" award was awarded to NASA Research Park.
In 1974, the government of San Jose instituted the Rincon de los Esteros Redevelopment Plan, to develop the Rincon de los Esteros district into a major tech hub for Silicon Valley. [15] In 1998, the city established a specific plan for Rincon South, which has since been a separate neighborhood from the rest of Rincon. [16] [17] [18]
The original plan for the Silicon Valley extension was to continue into downtown San Jose and Santa Clara via subway. However, in February 2009, projections of lower-than-expected sales-tax receipts from the funding measures forced the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to scale back the extension, ending it at the Berryessa/North San José station and delaying tunneling under ...
PayPal Park's first-ever match was the San Jose Earthquakes' final 2015 preseason game against the Los Angeles Galaxy on February 28, 2015, followed by the Earthquakes' 2015 regular season home opener against the Chicago Fire on March 22, 2015.
Phase I, completed on June 13, 2020, was the extension to Berryessa/North San José station. [7] The proposed Downtown San José station is part of a later, unfunded phase II of the Silicon Valley BART extension [8] and would be located between the proposed 28th Street/Little Portugal and Diridon BART stations. Construction is planned to begin ...
San Jose is the county seat of Santa Clara County and the main component of the San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara Metropolitan Statistical Area, with an estimated population of around 1.95 million residents in 2023. [18] San Jose is notable for its innovation, cultural diversity, [19] affluence, [20] and sunny and mild Mediterranean climate. [21]
The development of American commercial areas in San Jose extended into this newly surveyed area, just east of the original pueblo site of 1797 (relocated from the 1777 site after major flooding). In the 1870s and mid-1880s, the heart of downtown commercial activity had moved northward along Market Street (immediately west of First Street and ...