{"id":412217,"date":"2026-07-25T19:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:24:07","slug":"vacant-san-jose-building-finds-new-life-as-creative-hub-for-local-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412217\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacant San Jose building finds new life as creative hub for local artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">A long-vacant building near downtown San Jose is getting new life as a creative hub, with local artists preparing to move into studio spaces as early as next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localcolorsj.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Color<\/a>\u00a0is transforming the ground floor of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/charles-davidsons-contributions-to-silicon-valley-are-unparalleled\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davidson Building<\/a>\u00a0at 255 W. Julian St. into the Big Arts Building through a partnership with developer Westbank. The space will include about a dozen below-market-rate art studios and offices, along with areas for public programming including a gallery dedicated to muralism. The nonprofit is giving residents\u00a0a first look at the space Saturday from 3-7 p.m. as part of its 11th\u00a0anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-vacant building near downtown San Jose is getting new life as a creative hub, with local artists&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[19979,165066,4978,71902,15307,21680,5466,5392,88,90,89,198,2280,18740],"class_list":["post-412217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-big-arts-building","tag-downtown-san-jose","tag-galleries","tag-local-artists","tag-murals","tag-nonprofits","tag-public-art","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-silicon-valley","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412217","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=412217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}