Amendments to a previously approved hotel project will be reviewed this morning during the San Jose Planning Director hearing. The amendments will not change the proposed structure for 8 North Almaden Boulevard, but if approved, may extend the existing entitlement approval. Kenneth Tersini of KT Urban is the property owner.
The entitlements for the Almaden Corner Hotel were approved by the city in mid-January 2020. Plans included a 225-foot tall hotel rising with 272 guest rooms across 154,200 square feet and off-site parking. Guest rooms will occupy floors three through 18, with the 19th floor occupying a rooftop bar.
8 Almaden Boulevard lobby entrance, rendering by C2K Architects
The amendment under review this morning aims to remove the minimum parking requirements for the entitlement and replace portions of the Transportation Demand Management.
Previously, in September 2022, the project survived an appeal by the Preservation Action Council of San Jose. PACSJ had hoped that the city would require the new hotel could match the height of the existing 1931-built Hotel De Anze next door. Last December, the 10-story hotel was purchased by hotel owner Dhaval Panchel of MHP Hospitality for $11.5 million, nearly half the price that Lowe’s Enterprises paid just over a decade ago.
8 Almaden Boulevard, rendering by C2K Architects
8 Almaden Boulevard, via Google Satellite
Construction is expected to last for around 18 months, from groundbreaking to completion. However, the timeline for work to start has yet to be shared.
The San jose Planning Director hearing is scheduled to start today, Wednesday February 12th, at 9 AM. The event will be held online, with participation by phone or via Zoom. For more information about how to attend and participate, visit the meeting agenda here.
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Kind of a weird, Vegas-y design, but it seems like a good use for a surface parking lot.
Near Diridon Station and the convention center. A nice addition to help intensify the downtown. Thumbs up.
Disappointing they couldn’t have had this ready for occupancy for Superbowl 60 or the World Cup games next year.
It will completely block the views from one side of the Hotel de Anza, which is too bad.
Not sure the hotel will miss the views of a vacant lot, I think the vibrancy and street activation that another hotel next door will bring will more than make up for it.
I don’t understand the concern – it’s a mostly blank and unadorned side of the Hotel de Anza. The ornately decorated sides of the hotel face the streets… maybe because the hotel’s original designers anticipated it would be in the middle of a city with other tall buildings nearby?
Firewell emergency exit views. It’s a vacant lot fcs.
Chrissy: transient visitors are not going to ‘intensify’ downtown. The last forty years or so of redevelopment agency subsidizing the Fairmont and building a convention center later named after former mayor McEnery proved that it takes residents to do that
Ed: three sides of the DeAnza face office buildings and the fourth faces a condo tower. There is no”view” to block.