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St. James Park: Visions for the Future
While it may not seem this way now, St. James Park has a truly bright future. The first reason I believe St. James Park is headed for a significant positive change: Several groups are beginning to...
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City to Revisit Softball Complex Discussion
Two minutes shy of deadline to place it on the Nov. 19 City Council agenda, Councilmember Pierluigi Oliverio logged a request for the city to revisit the discussion about where to place a softball...
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Team San Jose Doubles Revenue Goals
Team San Jose, the city’s tourism and facilities management agency, vastly exceeded gross revenue goals last year. In 2012-13, the decade-old nonprofit generated $23.8 million—more than twice the...
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Levitt Pavilion: The Process of Remaking of St. James Park with Music
The Levitt Pavilion received support from the San Jose City Council this week, after Sam Liccardo gathered enough interest from neighbors and urbanists to get approval for an “Exploratory Committee.”...
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Plan to Fix Broken Streetlights Goes before Rules Committee
Copper wire theft and other problems leave hundreds of streetlights dark, creating a public safety problem in several neighborhoods. But what if the city leases these poles to telecom companies as cell...
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How to ‘Activate’ St. James Park
One of the most amazing things I witnessed in my tour of New York City parks was that there were no isolated spaces of green or concrete. They were no islands in the sense of being separate from the...
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What a Levitt Pavilion Would Bring to San Jose
There has been considerable speculation about the possibility of putting a Levitt Pavilion in St. James Park. I am going to provide some basic information and dispel some myths about the project, which...
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City Council Pushes Emergency Vote to Save San Jose Ballet
Silicon Valley's resident dance troupe has endured financial storms over the years—piling-up debt, losing its biggest donor and seeing a trickle-down effect from the economic recession. But thanks to...
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San Jose to Discuss Investment Policy, Social Responsibility
In 2009, San Jose became the first city in the nation to divest from a bank because of its role in the subprime mortgage crisis. The City Council voted unanimously to pull $1 billion from the Bank of...
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