One of the most anticipated office developments in San Jose got underway this week as the first of the planned buildings broke ground across the street from the popular mixed-use shopping center, Santana Row. The development, dubbed Santana West, has city approval for nearly 1 million square feet of office space, but developer Federal Realty...

The San Jose Public Library is locked in a standoff with LinkedIn, and the library director says unless the company continues to allow library patrons to access its online classes confidentially — as it has for years under its former name, Lynda.com — they’ll have to drop the service. Lynda.com was founded in 1995 by...

Two groups suing San Jose over an alleged lack of transparency in negotiations with Google to sell publicly-owned land for a massive development in the city’s downtown say the city violated open meeting laws by discussing details of the project privately and failed to keep some recordings of those discussions as required by city law....

Coworking is on the rise in Silicon Valley, but one popular coworking space in downtown San Jose will close its doors. After eight years, NextSpace on 97 S. 2nd Street will close on Aug. 31 after its lease was not renewed. At least 24 companies and individuals will be scrambling to find a new office...

Google announced Wednesday how it will spend the first $50 million of its $1 billion housing commitment in the Bay Area. The Mountain View-based tech giant is set to invest the funds to the Housing Trust Silicon Valley’s TECH fund, an initiative launched about two years ago by the San Jose nonprofit to offer low-interest...

Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced it will co-develop and lease to purchase a portion of the Coleman Highline development in San Jose, where its Verizon Media team will work. The company plans to employ 3,400 people in about 640,000 square feet of office space at the Coleman Highline campus, including 2,400 workers that are currently...

The Sobrato Organization has submitted a formal application to San Jose to remake a prime downtown parking lot in the heart of the city into a glassy new tower geared toward tech tenants. Market Street Towers, a proposed 19-story tower that appears from the outside to be four separate towers of varying heights, is expected...

Mere weeks after Google unveiled a $1 billion commitment to help spur new housing development and preserve existing affordable homes in the Bay Area, the tech titan has partnered with a real estate developer to bring some of that housing to fruition. Sydney, Australia-based Lendlease Corp. has made a formal agreement with Google to help...

San Jose’s cannabis industry has a diversity problem that starts at its highest levels. In a city where nearly six-out-of-ten residents are non-white, 14 of its 16 dispensaries have white owners and many of those have a mostly white workforce. So when Caliva, the cannabis dispensary in San Jose that boasts its number-one-in-the-nation status, announced...

A popular and colorful part of San Jose’s history — a historic basement once known as Manny’s Cellar — is set to get a new life under a plan by a prominent local developer. Tom McEnery, onetime San Jose mayor and the developer behind the bustling San Pedro Square Market food hall, is working out...