By Janice Bitters – Commercial Real Estate Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal Feb 11, 2019 A site slated to be San Jose’s first downtown co-living development has officially traded hands for $18 million, marking a milestone for the ballyhooed 800-bedroom proposal by housing startup Starcity. San Francisco-based Starcity on Friday closed on the 0.77-acre site at 199 Bassett [...]
By Janice Bitters – Commercial Real Estate Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal Feb 27, 2019 Silicon Valley Business Journal San Jose leaders cleared the way Tuesday night for a new kind of housing development to rise in the downtown core, with the City Council agreeing unanimously to add co-living to the city’s zoning code. The move [...]
By Janice Bitters – Commercial Real Estate Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal Feb 4, 2019 The developer behind a plan to build a 27-story residential tower in downtown San Jose says the project could turn into the city’s second co-living proposal. KT Urban first unveiled plans for a 290-unit residential project called Garden Gate at 600 S. [...]
Chamber of Commerce Honors Local Business and Real Estate Stars at Annual Membership Dinner Silicon Valley Business Journal Forgive Ru Weerakoon for taking the opportunity to slip in a quick pitch last week at the San Jose Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce annual membership dinner. “I’m a phone call away for any company that wants to expand or relocate,” [...]
San Jose Business Journal A 33-home project in some parts of Silicon Valley often doesn't even warrant a news story. But in Los Gatos, among the Bay Area's most sought-after — and least active — residential development markets, pretty much any new project is significant. That's why my heart skipped a beat when I learned [...]
Silicon Valley Business Journal Ken and Mark Tersini, two brothers who together head the Cupertino-based development firm KT Properties, have done as much as anyone to shape downtown San Jose’s skyline. In 2008, their 22-story, glass-and-granite Axis condo tower at 38 N. Almaden Blvd. opened for occupancy, one of the city’s first residential high rises. That [...]
By Jon Peterson The Registry - Bay Area Real Estate 3/10/2014 Reaching a new milestone with the city of San Jose’s planning department, Cupertino-based KT Properties is now moving ahead with plans for its major apartment project in downtown San Jose, the St. James Towers. “We are expecting that we would be starting the project [...]
By San Jose Downtown Association Downtown Dimension newsletter Vol. 25 No. 7, December 2013 It has taken awhile, but development and construction in downtown San Jose has stirred to life with several projects under way and more in the pipeline. The only major construction in the last five years was the $130 million Convention Center expansion, [...]
By Joshua Santos The San Jose Blog 9/23/2013 Below are images for the two towers that KT Properties is planning to build across the street from the San Pedro Square Market. In fact, you an even see the Market in the first three renders. The project will total 612 apartment units between both towers. One of them [...]
By Nathan Donato-Weinstein Silicon Valley Business Journal 9/13/2013 About a month ago, we told you developer KT Properties had acquired a 1.85-acre parcel in downtown San Jose and would soon formally propose a major high-rise project there. “Soon” turned out to be Wednesday. Cupertino-based KT has submitted preliminary plans for a two-tower residential complex for the site, located [...]
