Silicon Valley Business Journal
From the article:
Back when Barry Swenson Builder started to acquire a key block bordering downtown San Jose's St. James Park, Ronald Reagan was president and Apple Computer had just shown off the Macintosh.
More than 30 years later, a lot has changed in the world and in Silicon Valley. But the area around the defunct First Church of Christ Scientist looks much the same.
That could all change after the San Jose City Council on Tuesday gave final approval to a redesigned $150 million mixed-use high-rise condo project there called Park View Towers, brushing aside objections from the Preservation Action Council of San Jose that the development was out of character with the historic area.
The go-ahead means BSB can move forward with the complex process of moving the historic church so that site work can begin in earnest, a prelude to vertical construction. (The church will then be moved back and renovated for commercial use, making it the centerpiece of the two-tower, 220-unit project.) And it raises hopes for a long-awaited revival of the St. James Park, a vast downtown open space designed by Frederick Law Olmstead but an area that has long struggled with homelessness and drugs.