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Big tech campus at old Fry’s north San Jose store site pushes ahead
- andymoe 5y agoDo we really need more office buildings? How about a mix of residential and commercial/offices.
- deadmutex 5y agoI agree with you. I have seen major mixed use projects get a lot of resistance by NIMBYs in the Bay Area though.
- ehnto 5y agoMixed use would be so awesome. We could use more commercial in the burbs, "Store houses" would be a great benefit. With more people working remotely it might be a good blend of retail/office and residential too with small residential towers having commercial lower floors.
- helen___keller 5y agoThere's demand for offices, and tons of demand for residential too. The latter receives the most resistance and hence tends not to happen, however. As for where all those office workers will live - well, that's someone else's problem.
- yumraj 5y agoHow about mixed buildings? Lower floors with offices and upper floors with apartments. This will work well for younger workers with no families who live with roommates. Almost no commute. Once people have families they can move to other areas.
- genocidicbunny 5y agoSan Jose does need more offices, especially closer to the downtown core. Despite being a 1+ million resident city, it's largely a sleeper suburb. Many of the people that live in San Jose work elsewhere in the Bay Area. So San Jose does need more offices. It's all the nearby cities like Cupertino, Sunnyvale or Mountain View that need to be building more housing.
- chovybizzass 5y agoPeople are going back to the office? smh
- BuyMyBitcoins 5y agoFry’s stores were absolutely cavernous, and they really felt like a waste of interior space.
- Apocryphon 5y agoFelt like something that businesses could get away with in the 90s.
- fzzzy 5y agoMalls just seemed to get bigger and bigger, until all of a sudden they didn't.
- partido3619463 5y agoThe development ought to be mixed residential/commercial. Let’s stop adding to the housing crisis :-/
- jedberg 5y agoI'd love to see more mixed use developments, but honestly that would be a terrible place to live. It's all industrial and right next to the freeway.
- technofiend 5y agoReal estate is so tight I daresay people would live there anyway, particularly if by mixed use you mean the bottom two or three floors is restaurants and other services and perhaps even a grocery to round things out with residential on top.
- deadmutex 5y agoLiving next to the freeway isn't that bad. You get used to the noise after a week, even at night.
- jedberg 5y agoMy house actually backs up to a 10 lane freeway. :) But there is a huge difference between being on the ground floor behind the wall where the freeway just sounds like a river, and being on a higher floor where you can see, hear, and smell the cars.
- deadmutex 5y agoHeh, yeah. Around floor 30 the noise is basically all gone. I don't know how some people live next to the subway though. That is super loud IMO
- ehnto 5y agoI lived next to a railway line, like it ran behind my back fence and it was a corner, so extremely screechy. I would constantly wake up to feeling like it had derailed right into my bedroom. Would not do again.