Google on Monday launched a $10 million contest for nonprofits around the Bay Area to win grants ranging between $100,000 and $1 million from its philanthropic arm, Google.org. The contest, called the “Bay Area Impact Challenge,” marks the third time in five years Google.org has held the challenge. This year’s awards, however, will go to more organizations and...

Hunter Storm Development started construction this week on the next two buildings at its massive Coleman Highline office development in San Jose, but the groundbreaking is especially significant this time around in the multi-phase development. The office project, which will span as much as 2.2 million square feet, is now part of something larger: a...

The future of Santa Clara’s Freedom Bridge has been uncertain for years, but now the end may be near for the bicycle and pedestrian bridge over the San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail near Intel Corp.’s campus. Tucked between Highway 101 and Mission College Boulevard, the bridge was always meant to be temporary, even when Intel...

A trio of San Jose neighborhood groups around Diridon Station — the epicenter of change in the fast-growing city — have banded together, creating a united front to advocate, negotiate and work with city officials and developers on the changes to come. It’s the first time a united group of neighborhood associations have independently come...

When Yellow Checker cab driver Karan Deep’s phone rings, he has full autonomy to accept or decline a ride. That’s because the nearly 20-year driver is an independent contractor, and always has been. “I do it because I have relationships with customers,” Deep said. “This is my living, and I like it.” He said that...

Humans have been dreaming of the next frontier for decades, imagining what humankind might find among the stars. But in a stout, two-story building in Mountain View, one group is taking it a step further by imagining an entire new space economy. Made In Space, which leases land for its headquarters at Moffett Field from...

What sprouted at a community farm in East San Jose as a workforce development program for mobile food vendors has blossomed into something rare — an advocacy group pushing to make it easier for food cart operators to earn a living. It’s a community that needs advocates. The work is hard: profit margins are slim,...

One of the largest proposed developments in Santa Clara will get a shakeup this year after the Federal Aviation Administration raised red flags about the tall towers in the project, according to the developer, Kylli Inc. The Chinese developer has been working since early 2018 on a tall, mixed-use proposal called Mission Point that would...

As a temporary creative space, community art studio Local Color, formerly known as the Exhibition District, is used to bouncing around from different spaces in downtown San Jose. But now, the studio has partnered with a top investment firm to secure a new fixture — for free. The partnership between Local Color and the investment...

Google has granted $250,000 to Year Up Bay Area’s San Jose program, which aims to “close the opportunity divide” through technical and professional skills training. Year Up, which has partnered with Google across the country since 2009, focuses its services on people ranging from 18 to 24 years old who do not have college degrees....