{"id":512030,"date":"2026-10-29T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/512030\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:42:09","slug":"plaza-de-san-jose-downtown-landmark-that-once-honored-cesar-chavez-gets-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/512030\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaza de San Jose: Downtown landmark that once honored C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez gets new name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">SAN JOSE HAS A NEW NAME for its downtown plaza after months of community engagement, following allegations of sexual abuse against the late civil rights leader C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez for whom the space was named.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved renaming the 3.4-acre public space Plaza de San Jose, following a city-led process that drew 10,506 survey responses on the top five potential names. Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, who represents downtown San Jose and the plaza in District 3, said the survey results showed a clear preference for the new name.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for FREE<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">This is NOT a paywall. We just want to make sure you\u2019re a human. Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly regional 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":"SAN JOSE HAS A NEW NAME for its downtown plaza after months of community engagement, following allegations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[112902,16847,75225,6922,4978,102817,93,4306,197150,197151,4421,166450,151650,175730,67083,88,5500,90,89,881,198,102786],"class_list":["post-512030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-anthony-tordillos","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-city-parks","tag-community-engagement","tag-downtown-san-jose","tag-farmworker-movement","tag-featured","tag-featured-news","tag-jon-cicirelli","tag-landmark-renaming","tag-matt-mahan","tag-parks-and-recreation-commission","tag-plaza-de-cesar-chavez","tag-plaza-de-san-jose","tag-public-spaces","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-city-council","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-spotlight","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-sexual-abuse-allegations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512030","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=512030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}