A potentially eye-catching housing highrise proposed for downtown San Jose has edged closer to a construction start.
Orchard Residential tower, a housing highrise at 409 South Second Street located on the site of the Bo Town restaurant in downtown San Jose, concept.If the residential tower is built, the new project could become a green shoot of development activity in downtown San Jose, which is battling to escape the economic debris that coronavirus-linked business shutdowns have unleashed.
A real estate alliance of Westbank, a mega-developer with a global reach; and Urban Community, a local developer headed up Gary Dillabough and Jeff Arrillaga, is building the new tower. Westbank also said it would conduct construction in a fashion so as to minimize an impact on the adjacent properties owned by Richard Berg.
None of the brand-new projects proposed by Westbank have reached the point of vertical construction or even the excavation for a foundation. “It’s a key infill site for SoFA and will be an important project for the downtown,” said Bob Staedler, principal executive with Silicon Valley Synergy, a land-use consultancy.
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