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In alignment with the City and community’s vision for the Diridon Station Area, Downtown West is a 80 acre mixed use district that proposes up to 4,000 housing units, 7.3 million square feet of office space, 15 acres of parks, plazas and green space, and up to 500,000 square feet of retail, cultural, arts, education, and other active uses.

Google, in collaboration with the City of San José and residents, developed a public benefits package. Highlights include:

• - Creating a first-of-its-kind ~$150 million Community Stabilization and Opportunity Pathways Fund that is 100% focused on social equity and involves community participation in the grantmaking process.

• - Supporting 25% affordable housing in the Diridon Station Area - a level not achieved before in a private project in San José - through a combination of on-site land dedication, inclusionary housing (distributed among market-rate buildings), and inclusionary housing in lieu fees.

• - Investing in new walking and bike paths, construction of 15 acres of parks, plazas, and green spaces, year-round free programming, preservation of historic resources, ecological restoration, infrastructure investments, innovative district systems and more.

You can learn more about the project's public benefits in our Downtown West Social Infrastructure Plan.

In 2021, we delivered an initial portion of the community benefits to the City. This included the early transfer of land parcels, which provided the City an opportunity to begin development of affordable housing. In addition, we made an early $7.5 million community benefits payment to the City. Of this early payment, the City allocated $3 million to Community Stabilization (anti-displacement) programs due to the impacts of COVID-19 on the housing security for many residents. The funds prioritized programs focusing on increasing housing security and support services for disadvantaged communities throughout the City. This included tenant education, tenant outreach, eviction protection services, and land trust predevelopment and feasibility.

The City allocated the additional $4.5 million early payment balance to Aspire San José to provide a variety of services. This included scholarships to youth and adults for education and job training, childcare subsidies for training program participants, a college and pathways coordinator for the Downtown West project, Gardner neighborhood programs, and for the initial set up of the Community Stabilization and Opportunity Pathways Fund.

Additional community benefit funds will be paid to the City as the project progresses. Learn more.

Projects like Downtown West are multi-decade efforts. While we’re still identifying a timeline for the project, we’re working closely with the City and our project partners in the meantime to activate the site and engage the community, especially through our Creekside program.

We’re excited to help the City reach its goal of 25% affordable housing in the broader Diridon Station Area by providing dedicated land, paying commercial linkage and inclusionary housing in-lieu fees, and building affordable units amongst the market-rate housing.

Since our earliest days, we’ve been pursuing efficiencies in our operations and supply chain, focusing on key areas like energy, the circular economy, consumer hardware, water, and nature and biodiversity. We will continue to prioritize these areas in Downtown West. To learn more about our efficient and responsible use of resources, visit sustainability.google.

Downtown West is designed to foster and enhance connections between historic San José and a dynamic new part of downtown. That’s why we’re focused on balancing the preservation of historic places with the development of new open space and housing, office and retail space. We are at various stages of planning and design, renovation, salvage, demolition and relocation planning for the historic resources and existing buildings.