Massey is the successor to symphony founder Andrew Bales, pending his long-planned retirement.

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.

San Jose’s newest venue, The Break Room, is located in San Jose Jazz's downtown office at 310 S First St. in the SoFA District.

Good Spot is one part of a major transformation in downtown, including a wave of new business moving into the SoFA District while others shutter.

Three restaurants have declined to renew their leases in the SoFA Market food hall, and other downtown restaurants have called it quits.

Called Guildhouse, the new lounge will be a “spiritual successor” to AFKgg Gamer Lounge, which closed in 2018.

The gourmet coffeehouse will take over the building that once housed Caffe Frascati, an Italian bistro known for open mics and opera nights.

Gateway Tower has been controversial because it will demolish two century-old buildings in the low-slung SoFA arts neighborhood.

The nonprofit gallery, which set so many on a creative course in life, faces a roadblock on its own path—and it couldn’t come at a worse time.

From Little Saigon to Little Italy, will Silicon Valley’s treasured ethnic enclaves be recognizable once the pandemic runs its course?

The Italian café in SoFA District has welcomed artists since Opera San Jose began performing at the shop-front stage 10 years ago.

Someone smashed the door and three windows of the LGBTQ Youth Space, a resource center in the city’s SoFA arts district.

The San Jose Stage Company, which has operated out of the SoFA District theater for nearly two decades, is poised to buy the facility.

San Jose’s successor to the defunct Redevelopment Agency recently sold the Anno Domini property to developer Ken Tersini.

The future of longtime yoga studio in San Jose has suddenly been thrown into doubt, prompting its owner to ask the city for help.

Residents of San Jose’s SoFA District will pay top dollar to live in new high-rises, but artists and entrepreneurs worry they’ll be priced out.