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• JTown Corporation Yard Reuse Project
   
• Williams and Dame Development from Portland, Oregon is the new best developer selected by panel which included three community members to be the team to develop the city block  known as the 'Corporation Yard' - the last publicly owned land in Japantown San Jose.
  
  SB307 seven guiding principles mandated by the Japantown Community Congress of San Jose along with extensive surveying of business owners, interrupt surveys of festival goers, individual interviews of community leaders and neighbors, all were combined by City staff in hopes of attracting the best developer for the area. More meetings will come! This is just the beginning, but it is a long awaited move and one that will surely preface all future development in Japantown.
   
• Many Japanese Americans who were enrolled in and/or graduated from  in high school when Exec Order 9066 came about, never received their high school diplomas. Now comes the California Nisei High School Diploma Project
   
• Japantown Community Congress of San Jose (JCCsj)
  What are Ikoi no Ba? click here to find out
  What is the Fifth & Jackson Landmark click here to find out
  Cultural Preservation? click here to find out

Sake San Jose 2007

JTown Progressive Dinner!
Press release 6.05 -
 

Looking for office or retail space? Contact 298.4303 about spaces on Jackson Street in the heart of Japantown.


 

updated 9.6.5

Just News:

JCCsj is the recipient of two prestigious awards for the work accomplished in the Historic District Survey. (September 2005)
   The first is from the California Preservation Foundation under Cultural Resource Studies for the San Jose Japantown Historic Context and Reconnaissance Survey.  The awards ceremony is on September 17th, at the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda.  The festivities start at 5:00 PM with the reception and the awards presentation starts at 6:00 PM. 
   The second is the Governor's Historic Preservation Awards which are sponsored by the State Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) to give recognition to organizations and public agencies that have demonstrated achievements in preserving the heritage of California. This includes increasing public awareness, appreciation and support of historic preservation. Awards ceremonies will take place in November 2005.

San Jose International Airport North Concourse Concession Program Mineta San Jose International Airport will break ground on the North Concourse building, the first phase of the Airport Improvement Program. When completed in late 2007, the North Concourse will have approximately 17,000 square feet of concession space, including retail, food and beverage. The airport is looking for businesses that represent the ‘Local Flavor of San Jose’ Call Adriana Reves 408. 501-7616 for more information!

 Feel free to contact us if you've got and idea or contact that you'd like seen and heard! sanjosejtown@sbcglobal.net

Community news:

Everyone knows someone who is battling cancer or succumbed to the disease. Here is a group whose mission began as a community resource network for Asian Americans affected by cancer in the Bay Area through social programs and creative fundraising. Now, they have grown and at their 1 year anniversary in July 2004, have found that the baskets, counseling and support they give is being very well received and has been very much needed. Their annual fundraiser is Saturday, November 6, 2004 at the Hyatt Regency, SF Airport. Visit their website for more information www.aacsn.org  ASIAN AMERICAN CANCER SUPPORT NETWORK.

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SJRA, SB 307, Prop 40
 

• facade improvements for signed contracts with the RDA will continue
• A Neighborhood Business District Airport Committee has been formed for pursuing marketing possibilities at the San Jose Mineta International Airport. JBA is highly involved.
• Prop 40 and SB 307 funding will continue as planned with the Japantown Community Congress of San Jose being named the official partner organization to the city in these efforts, by resolution of the San Jose City Council, October 14, 2003.
• Directional signage will go forward with the possibility of additional signs to go on the west side of Coleman and Taylor (new development) to direct traffic to Japantown
• The Landmark work (to go on 5th and Jackson, spanning the street to take advantage of the new view from and of City Hall) continues with work being done on the Wall of Values and timeline.
• Historic markers for Japantown sites - academic identification and compilation/writing work will be done by a consultant hired by money from SB307
• Historic District Survey - a first assessment and historic context statement for the preservation of Japantown (to aid development and restrain urban renewal destruction) with money acquired from a grant written by SJ City Historic Preservation Officer, Courtney Damkroger for Japantown to provide accurate information for benefits that may be gained from such studies. (Please see above for awards won by this effort!)
• The CCPLEP 3-Japantown landmark can be seen in front of the Issei Memorial Building. There is a dedication ceremony being planned for sometime in October.