SAN JOSE — A veteran real estate firm has disclosed its vision for building well over 700 residential units in downtown San Jose, a pivot that scrubs a proposal for offices at the site.
The towers would feature hundreds of balconies and outside “rooms,” according to the latest concepts for the San Jose project, which is proposed by Canada-based Westbank, a mega-developer with a global reach.
A proposed 768 residential units would sprout on what is now a surface parking lot at 35 South Second St. in San Jose, the project plans state.
In 2021, Westbank proposed a curving tower with 194 housing units on 10 floors and 314,000 square feet of office space on another 10 floors.
The aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak and the tech industry’s wide-ranging downsizing, however, forced countless developers nationwide to scuttle their plans for new speculative offices built without tenants in tow…