The development will add a new housing highrise to the city skyline ... tech startups in downtown San Jose. The CityView development bolsters those efforts, in Mayor Mahan's view.

Barry Swenson, head of a family construction firm that built some of the most famous buildings in San Jose, has died.

Barry Swenson’s extraordinary vision and “special genius” for deal-making helped transform San Jose’s skyline and rebuild downtown Santa Cruz after the devastating 1989 earthquake when ...