SAN JOSE — An enormous transit company, pushing for brand spanking new BART stops, is looking for to seize possession of a downtown San Jose arson-scorched web site the place an grownup intercourse store as soon as operated and a housing tower has been proposed.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority has filed a lawsuit whose objective is to allow the VTA to personal a key location in downtown San Jose that’s close to an anticipated entrance to a proposed BART station, in accordance with authorized papers that had been filed on Might 20.
The property that the VTA needs to grab via an eminent area continuing has addresses of 17 via 25 E. Santa Clara St., the paperwork filed in Santa Clara County Superior Courtroom present.
“VTA seeks to accumulate the property for the event, development, operation and upkeep of the VTA’s BART Silicon Valley Part Two Venture,” the transit company said within the court docket papers.
The transit company in December 2021 filed an eminent area lawsuit that aimed to present the VTA possession of an adjoining property with addresses of 29 and 31 E. Santa Clara St.
Roygbiv Actual Property Improvement, which is headed by actual property entrepreneur Loida Kirkley, has proposed the event of 200 residential items in a tower that may occupy 17 via 31 E. Santa Clara St., a undertaking that may require each parcels.
Now, the destiny of the housing highrise undertaking, generally known as Eterna Tower, seems unsure within the wake of the VTA’s try to gather each properties on East Santa Clara Avenue.
Different San Jose properties that VTA is looking for to accumulate via the lawsuits are, in accordance with court docket papers:
— Eight parcels on an enormous web site that’s bounded by East St. James Avenue, North thirtieth Avenue, 5 Wounds Lane and North twenty eighth Avenue. Essentially the most notable companies on the websites are Monarch Truck Heart, a truck gross sales operation; Della Maggiore Stone, a granite provider; and Della Maggiore Tile. These could be required for BART’s twenty eighth Avenue/Little Portugal Station.
— A constructing with addresses that vary from 41 via 55 W. Santa Clara St. whose tenants embrace Chase Financial institution and the VTA. These could be required for BART’s Downtown San Jose Station.
The 17 via 25 E. Santa Clara St. parcel concerned within the current lawsuit in opposition to Rogibiv Actual Property would even be required for the Downtown San Jose BART cease close to First Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue.
“The BART Silicon Valley Part 2 Venture would be the largest single public infrastructure undertaking ever constructed in Santa Clara County,” the VTA said within the court docket papers.
B 2040, the BART extension undertaking is anticipated to deal with 54,600 riders every weekday, in accordance with a VTA estimate within the court docket papers.
The extension to the Diridon station, which can be served by Caltrain, may also be a significant step for regional rail companies, in accordance with the VTA’s web site.
“Completion of the undertaking will lastly ‘ring the bay’ with frequent rail service,” the VTA said in an online put up.