SAN JOSE — A housing highrise that could produce hundreds of apartments could sprout in downtown San Jose now that a key city panel has endorsed the residential project.
The 25-story tower — if built — would bring 210 residential units to downtown San Jose, documents on file with the city’s Planning Department show.
The highrise, proposed for a parcel with addresses of 439-451 South Fourth Street in San Jose, would spring 274 feet into the air as envisioned in the project plans.
“Its primary focus,” said Salvatore Caruso, the principal architect for the project, is “student and faculty housing.”
The housing tower development site is within a block of the southwest corner of the San Jose State University main campus.
At present, the site consists of a 30-unit apartment building and a single-family house that had previously been converted to commercial uses such as a photo store, city officials told the San Jose Planning Commission at its meeting on Feb. 14.
The San Jose Planning Commission approved the proposed housing tower unanimously and recommended that the City Council give the development plans final municipal approval.
The proposed development would contain an array of features that could help entice residents, the planning documents show.
“Amenities include study rooms, a dog park, a gym, pool, community rooms and rooftop amenities,” the planning documents state.
Rooftop amenities should increasingly become a feature of residential and office towers in downtown San Jose once these projects are built, Sal Caruso, the housing highrise’s architect, stated during the Planning Commission meeting.