When it comes to new office and residential development, San Jose has become the proverbial belle of the South Bay ball after about a decade of almost no commercial growth in the city’s downtown core. Officials, urban planners, business leaders and residents are bracing for proposals that could double the amount of office space in...

San Jose and Santa Clara may soon head to mediation over the future of north San Jose, an industrial part of the city projected to become a major mixed-use hub — if plans for the area can be pushed forward. San Jose city officials have long aimed to see the corner of the city tucked...

San Jose city officials and business leaders on Thursday unveiled a new “innovation zone” on the city’s west side, where companies can test new technology and the onetime Century 21 theater building may become a new “Innovation Hub.” The new innovation zone, announced by San Jose Vice Mayor Chappie Jones and Councilmember Dev Davis will...

Despite opposition from neighbors and downtown businesses, San Jose lawmakers approved a plan to allow guests of a proposed 19-story hotel with more than 200 rooms to park off-site at a public parking garage. The arrangement approved Tuesday between the proposed Almaden Corner Hotel and the city to allow hotel guests to use up to...

Carl Guardino made a surprise announcement Tuesday he’d step down from his 23-year role with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, where he serves as CEO and wields enormous influence throughout the Bay Area. But the unanswered questions around his upcoming transition out of the key business group, which is expected to take up to nine...

Carl Guardino, the longtime president and CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, who championed public policy in San Jose for more than 20 years, publicly announced Tuesday he is stepping down from his role as the business organization’s influential executive. Guardino, 58, has been with the organization since 1997 and for nearly 24 years...

The South Bay had a banner year for major property sales and new construction. Changes that had ripple effects — good or bad, depending on whom you ask — throughout Silicon Valley. But a recent Santa Clara County assessor’s office breakdown offers another perspective on those changes: additional assessed property of more than $25.6 billion...

Cannabis consumers in the South Bay — who already pay between 30% and 40% in taxes when their budtender rings them up — are about to feel a fresh pinch to their wallets when a statewide tax on farmers and retailers takes effect in 2020. Industry lobbyists, including Sean Kali-rai of the Silicon Valley Cannabis...

San Jose has seen a nearly unprecedented development proposal boom in recent years, and 2020 is set to be a critical year as some of those visions get off the ground or attract critical companies to the city. Here are five major projects to watch in the upcoming year. Will Museum Place finally begin to...

More than three years after spinning its last movie, the vacant Camera 12 site in downtown San Jose could soon be transformed into a vibrant office and retail space. Urban Catalyst, a San Jose-based real estate equity fund focused on development in opportunity zones, announced this week it has closed on the property at 201...