Category: Neighborhood Revitalization
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Veggielution’s SoFA Pocket Park: A Perfect Project Uplifting the Community Through Research and Core Partners
By SJSU URBP295 Students: Matt Gustafson, Xio Aguirre, Jean Reynolds, Ana Lopez At the southern edge of downtown San José lies an arts district known locally as SoFA (South of First Area). In recent years the area has seen an influx of investment activity as developers set their sights on the highly gentrifiable landscape. Enter…
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Revitalizing the Community in the Alum Rock Corridor
The Alum Rock Avenue business corridor and its adjacent East San José neighborhoods are steeped in history stemming from its immigrant past, activist roots, and deep culture exhibited in its Mexican heritage through the arts. At the core of it all is a steadfast community that has shown great resilience through the years, even as…
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Joining a National Initiative for Green Spaces
Many of us enjoy spending quality time at home with loved ones or catching a quick bite with close friends. As the city life overtakes our lives, the outdoors seems to go underappreciated. Over the fall of 2020, graduate students in SJSU’s Master of Urban Planning program worked collaboratively on a national initiative called Reimagining…
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Delmas Park Open House: “Design your Delmas”
Author: Nicole Guzman, CommUniverCity Project Coordinator Over 70 people attended the Delmas Park Open House on December 5th at the Children’s Discovery Museum. This event allowed residents and other stakeholders to come together to discuss the existing community assets and outline future changes they would like to see in their community. We also support…
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Delmas Park and CommUniverCity Partnership
Author: Nicole Guzman We are excited to announce a new partnership with the Delmas Park Neighborhood Association and CommUniverCity. One of our annual projects involves conducting a neighborhood satisfaction survey, and our focus area for this year is Delmas Park. On September 23, San José State University students from multiple departments, Political Science, Global Studies,…
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East Santa Clara Street Urban Village wins 2017 APA Award
Author: Lauren Chun, Communications Specialist When you walk along East Santa Clara Street, what do you think of? The unique shops? The mix of people that live along the corridor? Or maybe you just see the problems that need to be fixed. Unfortunately, there are things that need improvement. That’s why over 60 Urban and…
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Fountain Alley Design For All Showcase
Author: Nicole Guzman, Project Coordinator of Design For All After 5 months of planning and hosting community workshops, our SJSU Industrial Design students created 7 amazing street life models for the community and passerbys in Fountain Alley on May 15. This final showcase gave us the opportunity to gather more community feedback on how people…
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Dreams For A Lively, Vibrant, and Walkable Fountain Alley
Author: Nicole Guzman, Project Coordinator for Design For All What are some of your favorite places in Downtown San José? If you didn’t immediately think of Fountain Alley, you might just add it to your list after you hear about this special project known as Design For All. Design For All is an industrial design…
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Friends of Five Wounds Trail Spring Clean Up: A Success!
Friends of Five Wounds Trail, a program of CommUniverCity San José, advocates for the construction of a trail that is currently an existing railroad right of way. This recreational trail will add more natural beauty to our neighborhoods, provide greener alternate transportation routes, and connect to an already existing trail network in San José! This…
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Terry Christensen Thanks Supporters: Five Wounds Urban Village Plans Approved
Let’s celebrate a win for Community Planning in San Jose! On November 19th, the San Jose City Council unanimously approved four urban village plans developed for the Five Wounds/Brookwood Terrace neighborhoods. Below is a letter of thanks from Terry Christensen, founding Executive Director of CommUniverCity who first spearheaded our Urban Villages work: