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South San Jose is the southern region of San Jose, California.The name "South Side" refers to an area bounded roughly by Hillsdale Avenue and Capitol Expressway to the North, Camden Avenue to the West, Highway 101 and Hellyer Avenue on the east, the border with the city of Morgan Hill towards the south, and Los Gatos, to the west.
The VTA is a public transportation agency that operates bus and light rail services throughout Santa Clara County and employs about 2,000 workers. [8] The shooting took place at the VTA's Guadalupe Division facility, which is located in the Civic Center neighborhood of San Jose, near the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office and San Jose Police Department headquarters.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - A two-alarm fire in a South San Jose home injured a firefighter and displaced four residents Thursday afternoon, officials said. The fire first broke out around 8:15 a.m. in the ...
For thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, the area now known as San Jose was inhabited by several groups of Ohlone Native Americans. [3] Permanent European presence in the area came with the 1770 founding of the Presidio of Monterey and Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo by Gaspar de Portolà and Junípero Serra, about sixty miles (100 km) to the south.
Almaden Quicksilver County Park, 4,147 acres (16.78 km 2) of former mercury mines in South San Jose (operated and maintained by the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department). Alum Rock Park, 718 acres (2.91 km 2) in East San Jose, the oldest municipal park in California and one of the largest municipal parks in the United States.
The fourth and final phase of the Guadalupe Line added rails in the median of California State Route 85 (West Valley Freeway) to a terminus at Santa Teresa station just off the freeway in South San Jose. Originally projected to be completed in late 1988, it was delayed for a two-year review and opened on April 25, 1991, with a scaled-down ...
The Mercury News headquarters in downtown San Jose. The Mercury News is the largest tenant in the Towers @ 2nd high-rise office complex in downtown San Jose. [64] Business functions occupy the seventh floor of 4 North Second Street, while news staff and executives occupy the eighth floor, for a total of 33,186 square feet (3,083.1 m 2). [4]
Westfield Oakridge, commonly known as Oakridge, is a shopping mall in San Jose, California, located in the Blossom Valley neighborhood of South San Jose. Established in 1971, Oakridge has been redeveloped multiple times in its history, most recently in 2003, to the cost of $150 million. [2]