April 2018 Downtown Dimension Highlights

Here are my notes from the latest edition of Downtown Dimension:

• The SJDA has agreed on five strategic goals for the next two years:
• Downtown Vision and Plan
• BART / Business Interruption Fund
• Safety
• Homelessness
• Downtown Branding and Identity
• More parking Smart Meters that support credit card payments will be added this summer to the SoFA area, Downtown perimeter, and Japantown.
• The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) received $200,000 from the Knight Foundation.
• Bishops Cuts / Color is now open at 1 S. Market.
• Tea Alley is open at 40 S. First St. [Josh: solid addition Downtown!]
• Skewers and Brew is now open at 66 S. First.
• Holy Cannoli is open inside Fuze nightclub at 58 S. First.
• Diridon Hospitality submitted plans to build a nine-story hotel with 254 rooms at 292 Stockton Ave.
• PATH is breaking ground on an 83 unit housing project near St. James Park.
• Sobrato is planning to construct a 204,000 SQFT office building at 353 W. Julian St.

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