The iconic Bank of Italy office tower in downtown San Jose may gain a new mission as a housing highrise, a conversion being discussed with the forbidding backdrop of an office market that continues to wobble.
Google is halting construction on its planned 80-acre campus in San Jose with no plans to pick it up again in the near future as they begin a series of layoffs and cost cutting measures.
Downtown San Jose now has a high-level city official who will be solely dedicated to efforts to bolster the city's urban core, an move that fulfills a primary goal of the city's new mayor.