Google eyes a whole bunch of downtown San Jose houses over transit station website

Google intends to construct a number of hundred houses on a downtown San Jose parcel atop the proposed website of a future BART station close to the present Diridon transit hub, public information present.

The improvement would happen on a parcel whose addresses embody 574 W. Santa Clara St. that’s throughout the road from the SAP leisure and sports activities middle, in keeping with paperwork posted by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority.

“Up to 500 units of high-rise residential in air rights development above the Diridon BART station with 18,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, commercial and service use” are the important thing parts of the Google undertaking, the VTA paperwork present.

It’s well-known that Google is planning a mixed-use neighborhood of workplace buildings, houses, outlets, eating places, lodge amenities, leisure hubs and cultural websites on the western edges of downtown San Jose close to the Diridon prepare station.

The search big expects to make use of as much as 20,000 staff within the transit-oriented village, which is known as Downtown West.

What hasn’t been disclosed intimately is how a lot sq. footage or what number of residential models Google may develop at any specific parcel within the Downtown West undertaking.

That’s as a result of Google has but to file with San Jose planners particular improvement proposals for specific websites.

In this case, Google desires to acquire from VTA air rights to develop a undertaking over the placement of the long run underground BART cease on West Santa Clara Street close to the Diridon prepare station, the transit paperwork present.

Up to 125 parking spaces could be included within the residential and retail improvement.

Plus, reasonably priced houses are anticipated to be a part of the undertaking, in keeping with the VTA information.

“Such a project would need to include at least 20% of the units affordable to low- and very-low-income households as set forth in VTA’s affordable housing policy,” the VTA said.

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