SAN JOSE — A real estate firm that’s active in San Jose faces rising fines on one of its downtown buildings if the company fails to address blighted conditions that include a caved-in roof.
The building at 98 East San Salvador St. is owned by an affiliate controlled by real estate executives Gary Dillabough and Jeff Arrillaga, who are active in efforts to redevelop and revitalize the city’s downtown.
Urban Community, the real estate firm that Dillabough and Arrillaga head, aims to bulldoze the building as part of a project to develop eye-catching housing towers at and near the site. Construction hasn’t begun, however.
For now, the building remains empty and its roof has caved in, according to city officials and this news organization’s review of Google aerial maps of the property.
City code enforcement staff, Dillabough, and Arrillaga appeared before the San Jose Appeals Hearing Board on Nov. 13 to discuss the situation at 98 East San Salvador and other sites owned by the real estate executives…