The demolition phase of the project took out a number of historic San Jose landmarks and forced the relocation of others. A 74-year-old dancing pig sign for Stephen's Meat Products had to be moved, and only a small part of an old bakery building remains. Patty's Inn, an 88-...
SITELAB urban studio led the urban planning of the project, and KPF is one of several firms contributing to the design of buildings on site. To read more about the project inThe Architect’s Newspaper, please clickhere.
Google has invested $5.3 million in a large affordable housing project near downtown San Jose that will set aside units for people with developmental disabilities, the search giant and the project's developer said Tuesday. Kelsey Ayer Station, a 115-unit project being planned for a site at 477...
project's backers, which confirmed what we at Urban Catalyst knew all along: Google is committed to being in San Jose, believes in the people who live and work here, and has promised elected local and state representatives that the Downtown West project, while slightly delayed, is not in ...
Google gets approved to build a multibillion-dollar megacampus in downtown San Jose. After four years of negotiations, San Jose city officials have unanimously approved Google’s proposal to build a massive campus in the heart of downtown. For the “Downtown West” project, the tech giant pl...
"The NDA was just such a bad look for the project," agreed Bob Staedler, who is a principal at Silicon Valley Synergy, a San Jose-based land use and development consulting firm."So, it just started off badly." Another big concern was displacement, which the city had seen as tech emplo...
The City Council of San Jose recently approved Google’s “Downtown West” mixed-use corporate campus, an 80-acre net-zero environment
Google has released new details of a sprawling, 80-acre plan to transform downtown San Jose, California. Designed to be a corporate campus, the "Downtown West" development will emphasize public open space and parkland. Google intends to make the area feel less like a traditional corporate deve...
Luigi Rizzo, Giuseppe Lettieri, Vincenzo Maffione, Speeding up packet I/O in virtual machines, IEEE/ACM ANCS 2013, San Jose, Oct. 2013 Stefano Garzarella, Giuseppe Lettieri, Luigi Rizzo, Virtual device passthrough for high speed VM networking IEEE/ACM ANCS 2015, Oakland, May 2015 Vincenzo Maf...
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo sees his city in the middle of a civic effort to recast itself as one built for people, not cars. While San Jose was one of the fastest-growing cities in the U.S.—in the automobile age of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s—its downtown was ignored, homes...