A $113 million lease-buy-back deal will convert the south tower of the former Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose into a 700-bed student residence hall.

Police Chief Anthony Mata asked for prayers for the wounded officer, praised her partner for his heroism and thanked the community for its support.

Police had surrounded an apartment in downtown San Jose this morning, where one female officer was wounded by a gunshot while standing at a doorway.

San Jose will no longer wait for citizen complaints to remove graffiti, junk cars and trash from city streets in downtown and other selected areas.

The turmoil that drove Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank out of business, rocking the wider banking sector, has analysts bracing for the next possible crisis: the $20 trillion commercial real estate market.

Spinning off parks from underfunded government departments to entities that work closely with them has created “a golden age” for urban parks.

Tabard Director Rhys Williams said in an email that the theater, formerly Theatre on San Pedro Square, at 29 N San Pedro St., will be permanently closing in just over six weeks.

Building more emergency housing, adding more cops on the streets, expanding neighborhood cleanups and speeding up the permit process are key recommendations from advisory committees created last month by San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. The mayor’s office today announced the recommendations released by the five “transition committees” he launched in January identifying approaches to solve what he calls the city’s most significant challenges. They are to be presented to the City Council Tuesday.

Mahan’s new committees including council members, staff and community representatives will center around key issues raised by his mayoral campaign.

The VTA needs to use eminent domain because of the urgency to meet its expected 2030 opening date for the BART extension through downtown San Jose.

Mayor-elect Matt Mahan's emphasis on unhoused residents resonated with respondents in the latest San Jose Inside Power Poll.

The latest San Jose Inside Power Poll finds widespread concern for the state of downtown San Jose as it emerges from the depredations of the pandemic.

A tireless advocate for community organizations and projects, Joe most recently served in a leadership capacity with the Bay Area Furniture Bank, a non-profit that transports and donates surplus furniture to families in need.

The new CEO was selected after a nationwide search conducted by the HRS Executive Search firm to replace Knies, who has led the association for 34 years and retires in November as part of a planned transition.

Thang Do, of Saratoga, was CEO of Aedis Architects and founder of SoFA Market and The Fountainhead Bar in downtown San Jose.

San Jose's venerable Fairmont has been reinvented as Signia, a new modern luxury concept hotel.