While much of real estate news focus has been on foreclosures and upside-down mortgages, a big-picture look at the market in San Jose is a bit less gloomy, and kind of interesting. As of this week, there were 1,680 single-family homes for sale in San Jose. Of these, 33 were new listings, so even though we’re moving toward winter there is still new inventory coming online.
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Booger Kids started out as a way for San Jose streetwear impresarios Ryan Mante and Michael Ngo to loosen up their design aesthetic and have a little fun. While Mante’s other local urban-lifestyle company, Breezy Excursion, tends toward more subdued styles, the humorously named Booger Kids gets into a wearer’s face with edgy, decidedly salacious spins on ’80s cartoon characters.
Are you buying your kids a bike this Christmas? Don’t worry about getting a license for it. City Council is expected to drop the bicycle license requirement at its weekly meeting this Tuesday. Bicycle licenses have been in place in San Jose since 1974. They were originally intended to build a database of all the bicycles in the city, and to make it easier to track down bikes when they get stolen.
Christmas in the Park opened this weekend, but a shortage of funds endanger next year’s event. At the opening ceremony Martie DeGutis warned that if her group cannot come up with $200,000 for Christmas in the Park 2011, this may be the last year that the event is held. She called on visitors to donate a dollar to keep the San Jose tradition alive.
Now under new management, the troubled Three Sixty residential tower is to turn the building from condos into rental units. US Bank, which owned the primary loan that financed the building’s construction, recently sold the note to real estate investment firm Kennedy Wilson, Inc. Kennedy Wilson is now expected to foreclose on the project and take over its management.
This is the best Bay Area college football team in decades, playing with the best Bay Area quarterback and coach (NFL or college) in decades. It’s like the stars aligned perfectly for the Stanford Cardinal this year, and yet much of the Bay Area has yet to take notice.
Before my visit to Bona, a new Polish restaurant in Menlo Park, what I knew about Polish cuisine was pretty much limited to kielbasa. And potatoes. I’m pretty sure they eat a lot of potatoes in Poland. But there’s more to Polish food than sausage and spuds. Much more
Before my visit to Bona, a new Polish restaurant in Menlo Park, what I knew about Polish cuisine was pretty much limited to kielbasa. And potatoes. I’m pretty sure they eat a lot of potatoes in Poland. But there’s more to Polish food than sausage and spuds. Much more
In a short span of time, this zany holiday mashup comes extremely close to being literally what its title says it is. Having appeared at San Jose Stage two years ago, ‘Every Christmas Story Ever Told’ is now back by popular demand.
Evergreen College’s new Center for the Arts is causing more problems than anticipated. The $38 million building is plagued by a series of design flaws that left one instructor on disability and sixty students with no place to learn. It is also contending with fifty Cal/OSHA safety violations and one fire department violation.
