A spirited crowd gathered near the San Jose Diridon station Thursday in eager anticipation to see the Stephen’s Meat Products iconic neon pig dance again — after a more than 10-year hiatus. “I woke up with a smile on my face thinking the pig is going to dance again,” said Kim Walesh, San Jose deputy...

Verizon Wireless has been searching for office space and eyeing large projects in San Jose for months, but now it has zeroed in on Coleman Highline, a 1.5 million-square-foot office development near the city’s airport, according to several sources with knowledge of the discussions. As of Friday, there’s no indication that New York-based Verizon has...

Google has just committed $1 billion to address the Bay Area’s crippling housing affordability crisis, an initiative that CEO Sundar Pichai says will help create at least 20,000 new homes in the region over the next decade. The stunning announcement on Tuesday marks the largest promise to date by a Silicon Valley company to invest...

The Santa Clara Chamber of Commerce is ringing in a new era this week, unveiling a new name, logo and broadening its footprint to include more of Silicon Valley. The organization announced Friday during its sold-out New Years in June Awards Gala that it will become the Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce, focusing on...

Moving was inevitable. That’s what Exhibition District executive director Erin Salazar kept in mind when securing a vacant building space for Local Color, a spot for budding artists to produce their work. After city officials in February approved the demolition of the building on 27 South First Street to make way for a mixed-use residential and...

Since the California Public Utilities Commission decided to allow energy providers to unilaterally turn off the lights when the risk for wildfires is high, San Jose lawmakers want to know how it will affect the more than one million residents in the city. In a new memo, Mayor Sam Liccardo, Vice Mayor Chappie Jones and Councilmembers Sergio...

With Silicon Valley residents already sacrificing health to pay their rent, a new report says living in the region is about to get much more expensive for local renters. Google’s proposed mega-campus will hike local rents up, causing tenants to pay five times more in rent than the city expects to collect in tax revenues...

When Santa Clara’s massive mixed-use development, known as Related Santa Clara, shapes up in the coming years, it may be one of the first in the Bay Area to come with a new flying rideshare “skyport” by Uber. Uber Elevate, a team within the San Francisco-based rideshare giant Uber Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday that it...

San Francisco developer Jay Paul Co.’s buying spree in downtown San Jose hasn’t yet slowed. On Friday, the company spent $100 million on two slices of land at 200 Park Ave. and 282 S. Almaden Blvd. That marks its third major property purchase in the city’s downtown in less than a year. Jay Paul Co....