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Former Orchard Supply Hardware building at 720 West San Carlos Street, a one-time retail site within the footprint of Google’s proposed Downtown West village. SAN JOSE — Google plans to demolish part of the former Orchard Supply Hardware complex in downtown San Jose, a move that suggests the tech titan has not “forgotten” about its transit village project. The upcoming bulldozing effort shows the search giant continues to conduct preliminary work ahead of an… Source link

KALYNIVSKE, Ukraine (AP) — When night falls in Tatiana Trofimenko’s village in southern Ukraine, she pours sunflower oil that aid groups gave her into a jar and seals it with a wick-fitted lid. A flick of a match, and the make-do candle is lit. “This is our electricity,” Trofimenko, 68, says. It has been over 11 weeks since Ukrainian forces wrested back her village, Kalynivske, in Kherson province, from Russian occupation. But liberation has not diminished the hardship for residents,… Source link

SAN JOSE — A big Marriott hotel within walking distance of Google’s proposed transit village in downtown San Jose has moved closer to launching construction. Urban Catalyst, the hotel’s developer, has obtained permits to build the project, according to documents filed with San Jose officials. The eight-story hotel, if it’s built, would rise at 495 W. San Carlos St. next to Josefa Street, a short distance from a game-changing neighborhood that Google has proposed near the Diridon… Source link

SAN JOSE — Google has added a key piece to the puzzle it is assembling for the land to develop a new transit-oriented neighborhood in downtown San Jose. The tech titan has bought a church site at 56 S. Montgomery St. in downtown San Jose, paying about $11.7 million in cash for the property, according to documents filed on May 28 with Santa Clara County officials. Google has been assembling properties and gaining approvals from city officials for a mixed-use neighborhood called Downtown… Source link

Google is poised to make San Jose history. The tech giant’s grandiose vision for a new 80-acre mega campus on the western edges of downtown San Jose is headed to the San Jose City Council on Tuesday for possible final approval, launching the largest single development deal ever reached in the city. Dubbed Downtown West, the project would lay the groundwork for decade-long construction of up to 4,000 housing units, 7.3 million square feet of office space, 300 hotel rooms, 500,000 square… Source link

Google is poised to make San Jose history. The tech giant’s grandiose vision for a new 80-acre mega campus on the western edges of downtown San Jose is headed to the San Jose City Council on Tuesday for possible final approval, launching the largest single development deal ever reached in the city. Dubbed Downtown West, the project would lay the groundwork for decade-long construction of up to 4,000 housing units, 7.3 million square feet of office space, 300 hotel rooms, 500,000 square… Source link

SAN JOSE — Google intends to rescue and preserve several big reminders of San Jose’s industrial past as part of its plan to develop a transit-oriented new neighborhood on the western edges of the city’s downtown area. An old bakery, 19th-Century Victorian bungalows, a long-time ironworks, a century-old foundry, a historic utility building, and a famed “dancing pig” sign will be all preserved fully or in part by Google as it develops its Downtown West village near San Jose’s… Source link

SAN JOSE — Google’s first property purchase for its downtown San Jose transit village was an aging telephone company building — and now that area is slated to be the spot for the neighborhood’s first development sites. Office buildings, housing, and a cultural center would be part of the initial stages of the development of the Downtown West transit-oriented neighborhood that Google has proposed for a mile-long stretch near the Diridon train station and SAP Center — if city… Source link

SAN JOSE — Google’s first property purchase for its downtown San Jose transit village was an aging telephone company building — and now that area is slated to be the spot for the neighborhood’s first development sites. Office buildings, housing, and a cultural center would be part of the initial stages of the development of the Downtown West transit-oriented neighborhood that Google has proposed for a mile-long stretch near the Diridon train station and SAP Center — if city… Source link

MOUNTAIN VIEW — The 20-year timeline to build a Google village that would transform suburban office parks of the East Whisman neighborhood as well as the tech giant’s plan for meeting the city’s affordable housing requirements raised eyebrows this week among city commissioners who are eager to build housing more quickly. As part of several other massive housing projects across the South Bay, Google’s Middlefield Park project would create a new neighborhood of 1,900 homes, about 1.2… Source link