A Preliminary Review Application (File No. PRE17-143) was recently submitted at 375 S. Baywood Avenue for a 12-story, 65 unit multifamily building with underground parking on a 0.3 acre site. Currently the site has two existing single-family homes and could be developed with up to 75 units under the Urban Village land use designation. This property falls within the newly adopted Valley Fair/Santana Row Urban Village Plan. The VFSR Plan sets a capacity for 8,500 new jobs and 2

Construction is well underway for Federal Realty Investment Trust’s latest 284k SF office building at 700 Santa Row in San Jose. The eight-story building at Santa Row at Olsen Drive will offer floor plates ranging from 38k to 48k SF, modern architecture and headquarters-quality space with concrete construction. This newest building falls on the heels of Federal Realty’s six-story office building at 500 Santa Row, which was fully leased to Splunk last year. Occupancy will begi

A 25-story mixed-use tower proposed for a site near Santana Row could bring 330 condos and around 50k SF of commercial space to San Jose. The tower, Volar (which means "to fly" in Spanish), has a shape inspired by falcon wings and will feature a circular, top-floor restaurant, putting it in sharp contrast to the two-story, 27k SF retail building that now sits on the site. Above and below are renderings of Volar from a couple of different angles. Salvatore Caruso Design is beh

A 14-story office tower and nearly 1,000 apartments are envisioned for the old Winchester theaters site across from Santana Row. And yes, the plans call for saving one of the theater domes — though it's unclear how the mid-century building, a subject of a vocal preservation movement earlier this year, will be used. Federal Realty Investment Trust this week turned in conceptual plans to the city, giving the first public glimpse at one of the highest-profile development project

Santana Row will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year. It has provided a new destination for Bay Area residents as well as additional tax revenue for San Jose. Santana Row is a unique place that draws people from outside of San Jose and has people talking about it across the country. People I know who typically did not visit San Jose years ago do frequent Santana Row today. The same visitors spend money while enjoying themselves in the 95128 zip code. The cultural di