A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where they may be sorely needed

Re:A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where the... by oneshot908 on Saturday July 29, 2017 @04:21PM (#14882847)

It's funny, because you're dead-on about this IMO. Individual cities responding individually to the commuter calamity of the South Bay have done a better job than any high-fallutin' 20-year plan could have.

As for downtown San Jose, it looks like it's about to get a lot better if Google follows through on building a campus there. Meanwhile in my hometown of Santa Cruz, it's bums, needles, and out of business signs thanks to our local rabidly anti-growth government. I'm pinning my hopes on Amazon eventually expanding its downtown footprint as the only way possible way out of the trap the place constructed for itself.

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Re:A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where the... by DrScump on Sunday July 30, 2017 @01:23AM (#14884547)

  if Google follows through on building a campus there

I wouldn't count on that. They just bought (final) some $600 million worth of real estate in North Sunnyvale.

Those parcels in San Jose were originally acquired for the ballpark that never happened, either. I suspect they offered them to Google at far below their value, as with the A's.

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Re:A Bay Area developer wants to build 4,400 homes where the... by oneshot908 on Saturday August 05, 2017 @04:42PM (#14937797)

Well, as someone who was once caught in the net of Google's "Let's hire every smart person in the valley and give them menial jobs to keep them off the market" plan of 2011, I wouldn't rule out the "Let's develop the last pieces of available land in Silicon Valley so no one else can" plan of 2018 because WTF else do you do with billions of dollars in profit?

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