The venerable Café Stritch will be reinvented as a new venue in the coming months as the keys are turned over to the jazz bar’s former general manager, Andrew Saman. The establishment will be known as Mama Kin, Saman says, and will continue to book jazz shows while expanding with other types of music.

The design came out on top of a world-wide search for San Jose’s new, iconic landmark, but some advocates are pushing back on the project.

Silicon Valley will one day have a fluid, illuminated, kinetic landmark, swaying in the breeze—assuming the project gets funding and approval.

The San Jose Light Tower Corporation recently closed submissions for its worldwide open ideas competition, Urban Confluence Silicon Valley.

The San Jose Light Tower Corporation recently won official approval to bring an iconic landmark to the heart of downtown.

Last week, Cafe Stritch held an event to build excitement for the massive light tower project. The results were encouraging.

Can San Jose rebuild its iconic light tower, visually brand itself and break the curse of century of mediocre architecture?

Just when the San Pedro Market in San Jose looks poised to take off and become a credible attraction downtown, the market’s manager has called it quits. Steve Borkenhagen left his role as the head of the wine bar/barber shop/restaurant complex last week to go back and run his family’s restaurant, Eulipia, on South First Street.