{"id":212081,"date":"2026-03-09T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212081\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:47:08","slug":"affordable-homes-may-sprout-at-san-jose-commercial-site-near-the-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/212081\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable homes may sprout at San Jose commercial site near The Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 More than 100 affordable homes might sprout on a commercial site in San Jose that\u2019s near The Plant retail hub and State Route 87, according to very preliminary plans on file at City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed development is slated to produce up to 115 affordable homes at 195 Curtner Avenue in San Jose, a filing with city planners shows.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Site of proposed development of affordable homes at 195 Curtner Avenue in San Jose, shown within the outline. Boundaries are approximate.(Google Maps)\" width=\"1095\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/SJM-L-SJHOMESDEV-01.jpg\" \/>Site of proposed development of affordable homes at 195 Curtner Avenue in San Jose, shown within the outline. Boundaries are approximate.\u00a0(Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>At present, an Enterprise Rent-A-Car building occupies the 0.5-acre site, which is at the corner of Curtner Avenue and Stone Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Other proposals have emerged in recent years to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/02\/06\/san-jose-home-build-property-economy-office-develop-real-estate-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">develop homes on office or retail sites<\/a> as a result of the fading fortunes of some commercial properties and the ongoing demand for housing.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal for the Curtner and Stone site is considered to be very preliminary and might be modified as a result of the city review process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe property owner at 195 Curtner is hoping to understand more about its viability for a potential affordable housing development with a small amount of retail on the ground floor,\u201d the preliminary proposal states.<\/p>\n<p>A Sunnyvale-based company whose principal members are Bay Area real estate executives Alan Bogomilsky, Ahron Bogomilsky and Bernard Mirkin owns the property, state government business files show.<\/p>\n<p>A prior proposal for the site envisioned ground-floor retail totaling 2,900 square feet and a street-level parking structure. The residences would be developed in a three-story building on a podium atop the housing.<\/p>\n<p>The applicants suggested that the proposal is being presented as a trial balloon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new project would not need to match this description and is presented solely as an example of the potential scale of proposed development on the site,\u201d the planning documents state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 More than 100 affordable homes might sprout on a commercial site in San Jose that\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,387,7,8,3010,1335,383,1011,1337,1533,181,100,388,88,90,89,5406,198,200,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-212081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-commercial-real-estate","13":"tag-development","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-housing","16":"tag-housing-development","17":"tag-keywee","18":"tag-latest-headlines","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-real-estate","21":"tag-san-jose","22":"tag-san-jose-headlines","23":"tag-san-jose-news","24":"tag-san-jose-real-estate","25":"tag-santa-clara-county","26":"tag-south-bay","27":"tag-south-san-jose"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}