Thanks to Victor for the tip and photo!
Update: added second photo
Friday, March 22, 2013
Miami Beach Club is Being Razed
Now is the time to say your last goodbyes to the pink Miami Beach Club building. Demolition is under way and soon the building will become... a parking lot. Not the best news for most people that read this blog, but the positive spin is that the land is being prepped for bigger and better things in the hopefully not too distant future. I think this would be a great space for a new high-rise or an expansion of the San Pedro Square Market.
Thanks to Victor for the tip and photo!
Update: added second photo
Thanks to Victor for the tip and photo!
Update: added second photo
It's already old news. It was knocked down yesterday. Just the clean up left. I watched it from a highrise.
ReplyDeleteThis is pathetic! To raze a building for a parking lot????? What a horrible city San Jose is! They should never future tonk(doing it for future development). Didn't the city learn it lesson back in the 60's and 70's. That's what destroyed this downtown!
ReplyDeleteYes, some true historical gems were destroyed in the 60/70's to make way for vast parking lots. Razing Club Miami for a parking lot; not much was lost there IMHO.
DeleteIt's a slow news day in San Jose. Ha.
ReplyDeleteNot really. Downtown is jumping right now with the NCAA tournament going on at The Tank. Nothing wrong with covering the razing of a San Jose nightclub. I actually got intoxicated there once in the early 90's...
DeleteSigh. Another downtown San Jose building bites the dust with no replacement in sight. As sad as an empty unused building is, it's not half as sad as the open expanse of an unneeded parking lot.
ReplyDeleteA parking lot will be there for years to come without any development. A sad tale for this less densly developed downtown.
DeleteHopefully this won't be the case...we'll just have to wait it out and let things take their course :)
DeleteNot a sad tale, just a beginning for something perhaps better!
What's all the kerfuffle?? This place was hardly a landmark and good parking is wonderful to have and will be needed as the San Jose marketplace continues to bring development.
ReplyDeleteI, for one, really don't understand the mentality that thinks development always has to be a high rise. Please. High rises are alienating and erode the wonderful human-scale quality of downtown (which has the same feel as Santana Row).Mind you: we need the SR retail/business, but the overall architectural feel is similar.
More soul-less, no-character high rises does not necessarily signify development (except in the developers bank account).
Not a landmark but it was an old brick-and-mortar building, of which we have less and less everyday. The addition of 20 unneeded parking spaces hardly justifies its razing. But like Josh I will remain optimistic and hope something gets built. But if that parking lot at First St and San Fernando is any indication, it may be a few decades.
DeleteDevelopment doesn't have to be high-rise, but it would be preferable. Truth be speaking, 3 out of our 4 current high-rises (you know which is the exception) are all very nice to look at and bring some much-needed aesthetics to our downtown.
ReplyDeleteAll downtown of big cities have high-rises, 20+ stories and whatnot. San Jose is a big city, no need to have a small-city downtown. Leave the charming, village-style to other tourist towns, we need a vibrant downtown, and the high-rises will be part of that end goal.
And yah, that place needed to be demolished. Not much of a history with that place and that parking lot hopefully soon will be rebuilt for more residential/office. I'm all for that!
Since were are talking about the SPS area, The Farmer's Union build out appears to be moving along nicely. Check out their Instragram feed: http://instagram.com/thefarmersunion
ReplyDeleteNow THAT will be awesome! Perhaps even better than Yard House? If they have Great White on tap, I'M THERE!
ReplyDeleteWhen will the market actually be a market ? Can we at least put a Sprouts inside to have fresh produce meats and deli? another bar in downtown.Typical San Jose
ReplyDeleteThere used to be a produce market there called Veggie Box. It closed due to lack of business. You can't force a landlord to rent space to a tenant that can't afford to pay rent because people don't shop there.
DeleteI've always felt that Zannatos should relocate to the SPS Market. Need more residents in the area for the Market to become a REAL market (IMHO).
DeleteAnon has it right, people didn't patronize Veggie Box and now complain about where the "market" part of SPSM is. Pretty hypocritical.
DeleteIf Veggie Box held on for a while longer, they would have been doing great now. Anyway, there are lots of expansion plans for the Market and I think we will see more of the traditional "Market-style" vendors in there eventually.
DeleteI wasn't being hypocritical. I had even been to Veggie Box. Maybe they shouldn't have said it would be similar to a Pikes place or Ferry Building with speciality shops. I like it there but now I just see it as another bar to go to.
DeleteDowntown is nothing but a sea of parking lots. Two steps forward and one back type of downtown.
ReplyDeleteAt least it is two steps forward and one back than the other way around =). Anyway, imagine the area before the SPSM and look at it now. What a difference two years can make.
DeleteYawn
ReplyDeleteI think it's time to turn off the Anon posts for a while.
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