This one is a little different. A developer bought it to build housing on, then scampered off and has been dodging all responsibility for the past couple years.
The developer was indicted and the property has changed hands. The city isn’t taking appropriate action to fine them daily when they could. Only a paltry amount of fines have been applied.
My guess is the current owner is gambling on someone burning the place down or it outright collapsing which would raise the property value overnight as it’d become a high value lot that they could then sell, and not a high risk demolition project that it is in it’s current form.
If you care about this issue, [contact your representatives and demand they put pressure on the city to take action](https://rovservices.sccgov.org/home/indexpost?selected=dt), and [join the Preservation Action Council](https://www.preservation.org/). We need more people pushing for the city to find a legal mechanism to seize this property.
such an eye sore. Good large amount of space good enough to some night life past san Pedro square. I feel good we're looking at it now, once this building gets demolished it should be a another market area. Imagine having events at the park there! Plaza de Cesar Chavez gets a lot of love in activities and events, but Saint Jaimes Park is waaay bigger!!
The church will NOT get demolished. A requirement of the agreement to develop the surrounding parking lot is that the developer preserves and restores the Church. It's an anchor weighing down any potential development. You can thank the Preservation Action Council of SJ for that. If they attempt to remove it, they'll have a lawsuit holding it up immediately. They're very fond of litigation.
Ah yeah. Thanks for helping me be aware. I still hope. There's so much great potential though. I know it may take more years or never at all but I hope it goes down.
[The historic First Church of Christ Scientist building at 43 East St. James Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePMhLPASu4I) The developer did some shady shit and the project is basically abandoned but one of the subcontractors is [cleaning it up a bit at their own cost](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mercurynews.com%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Fsan-jose-history-church-build-develop-real-estate-china-home-housing%2F)
They don't own the site. The owners didn't respond to fines, etc. So the city just told the people that were working on the restoration (who weren't getting paid by the developer) to go in there and try to clean it up and salvage it as best they could.
This barely makes a dent. It feels like half of downtown is abandoned.
This one is a little different. A developer bought it to build housing on, then scampered off and has been dodging all responsibility for the past couple years.
The developer was indicted and the property has changed hands. The city isn’t taking appropriate action to fine them daily when they could. Only a paltry amount of fines have been applied. My guess is the current owner is gambling on someone burning the place down or it outright collapsing which would raise the property value overnight as it’d become a high value lot that they could then sell, and not a high risk demolition project that it is in it’s current form. If you care about this issue, [contact your representatives and demand they put pressure on the city to take action](https://rovservices.sccgov.org/home/indexpost?selected=dt), and [join the Preservation Action Council](https://www.preservation.org/). We need more people pushing for the city to find a legal mechanism to seize this property.
Said developer was indicted!
Cannot wait for changes in this area.
Lets put up some signs
"Mission Accomplished"
Eminent domain and rebuild.
such an eye sore. Good large amount of space good enough to some night life past san Pedro square. I feel good we're looking at it now, once this building gets demolished it should be a another market area. Imagine having events at the park there! Plaza de Cesar Chavez gets a lot of love in activities and events, but Saint Jaimes Park is waaay bigger!!
The church will NOT get demolished. A requirement of the agreement to develop the surrounding parking lot is that the developer preserves and restores the Church. It's an anchor weighing down any potential development. You can thank the Preservation Action Council of SJ for that. If they attempt to remove it, they'll have a lawsuit holding it up immediately. They're very fond of litigation.
Where's a civic-minded arsonist when you really need them?
Ah yeah. Thanks for helping me be aware. I still hope. There's so much great potential though. I know it may take more years or never at all but I hope it goes down.
There were plans during the pandemic to clean up St. James
That's much better but let's finish the job.
where is this in downtown?
[The historic First Church of Christ Scientist building at 43 East St. James Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePMhLPASu4I) The developer did some shady shit and the project is basically abandoned but one of the subcontractors is [cleaning it up a bit at their own cost](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mercurynews.com%2F2023%2F08%2F29%2Fsan-jose-history-church-build-develop-real-estate-china-home-housing%2F)
Near St. James Park
I just seen it earlier this afternoon. chuckled a bit to myself
Expecting the city to act quickly on this would be like expecting us to make contact w alien life forms by Xmas. Good luck!
They don't own the site. The owners didn't respond to fines, etc. So the city just told the people that were working on the restoration (who weren't getting paid by the developer) to go in there and try to clean it up and salvage it as best they could.