SAN JOSE – FEBRUARY 2: A tent will be seen within the distance as an individual runs on the path alongside Guadalupe River Park in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Feb. 2, 2021. (Randy Vazquez/ Bay Space Information Group)
Whereas greatest identified for its work in city land-use and transportation, SPUR’s latest on-line exhibition takes a deep dive right into a less-asphalty subject: re-envisioning the Guadalupe River Park that runs via downtown San Jose.
And the “re” a part of the envisioning course of is vital right here, SPUR leaders say, as a result of the park as initially designed greater than 20 years in the past isn’t assembly its potential for customers — and that features the unhoused, whose encampments have been a scorching subject currently.
Noah Christman, SPUR’s director of public programming, stated the group hopes that the interactive exhibit serves as a hub for stakeholders — whether or not that’s town, neighborhood teams or particular person customers — to come back collectively and perceive that the Guadalupe River Park will be greater than what it's now.
“It’s very easy to imagine that what we've got is what we’re going to proceed having,” stated Christman, who managed the exhibition based mostly on work by SPUR’s former planning coverage director, Michelle Huttenhoff. “And that’s not the case, as we’ve seen with tasks round San Jose.”
The exhibit, which will be considered at www.spur.org/guadalupe, dives into the park’s origins in a flood-control undertaking, explores concepts about “rewilding” the river and appears on the concern of making a protected area for everybody (together with the individuals who at present stay within the park). Completely different sections embody alternatives for guests to offer their very own ideas and reply questions in regards to the park’s future. The analysis that went into the exhibition was completed in partnership with the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy and town of San Jose, with funding from the Knight Basis, and is mirrored in a major useful resource library on the finish of the exhibition that permits individuals to go even deeper.
Fred Buzo, SPUR’s San Jose director, stated shifting the park ahead has been the topic of a number of conversations and plans through the years however with little progress. He hopes that having extra individuals taking a look at this work and offering suggestions will break that logjam.
“I see the exhibition as a device that we’re going to make use of shifting ahead to have town and different organizations just like the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy ask some troublesome questions,” he stated. “Right here’s doubtlessly this good spot that wants a ton of labor, and right here’s one other imaginative and prescient for it. Nobody’s actually requested the query, ‘What’s it going to take to do that?'”
SHARKS LOGO STILL NO. 1: The San Jose Sharks emblem was ranked the perfect in professional sports activities, based on a survey by a advertising and marketing outfit referred to as High quality Emblem Merchandise. Whereas such surveys are greatest taken with a grain of salt, Sharks followers ought to simply take take this as a win, particularly as a result of the research of extra 1,000 members have been from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., and never — as one may suspect — solely from better San Jose.
The respondents clearly have a factor for offended animals, for the reason that high 4 alternatives — the Sharks, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Philadelphia Eagles and the Baltimore Ravens — all characteristic mean-looking wildlife.
The Sharks model additionally topped the classes of NHL’s greatest and Most Inventive. The unique teal-and-black emblem that includes a shark chomping via a hockey stick was designed in 1991 by Northern California artist Terry Smith and was a direct hit with sports activities followers. It additionally made Smith, a former Stanford basketball participant, an in-demand artist for different sports activities logos and posters, together with for the San Jose Earthquakes.
The Sharks referred to as upon Smith once more in 2013 to refresh the brand, making the Shark a little bit extra aggressive and including definition with a darkish teal coloration scheme. The emblem shall be on full show Saturday at SAP Middle when the Sharks tackle the Tampa Bay Lightning and rejoice the “birthday” of one other key component of the staff’s branding — beloved mascot S.J. Sharkie.
VACCINE AND A MUSEUM PASS: The Kids’s Discovery Museum in San Jose has its second vaccination clinic with the Santa Clara County Public Well being Division on Jan. 23, and as with one which occurred earlier this month, a COVID-19 vaccination shot comes with a go for as much as eight individuals to go to the museum between now and Might 31.
The clinic on the museum, at 180 Woz Approach, runs from 9:30 to 4:30 p.m. and is open to anybody age 5 or up. There are not any appointments, and every part is dealt with on a walk-up, first-come foundation. In case you miss this one, there’s one other arising Feb. 13, and you will get extra particulars at www.cdm.org/vaccination.