Owners of downtown San Jose properties VTA wants to purchase are refusing to sell, leaving the transit agency to consider beginning the eminent domain process in order to complete plans to extend BART service into the Silicon Valley. via mariannefavro
Several downtown businesses may be forced to relocate due to BART's plan to extend service to San Jose.phase to extend BART service into the Silicon Valley
, wants to purchase downtown San Jose buildings housing several businesses to complete the project. Owners of the properties are refusing to sell, leaving VTA to consider beginning the eminent domain process. "Those are properties where we are going to locate emergency egress/exiting from downtown station platform as well as emergency ventilation facilities," said Ron Golem, VTA's director of real estate.
Mexico Bakery is one of the businesses on the properties VTA is interested in acquiring. Owner Jose Landin said he has been at his current location for nearly 20 years and is worried about his employees.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter. "We employ 10 people and it is how they support their families," Landin said."So they would have no job once VTA takes over.""VTA offers services for relocation, but honestly with that money it's not enough to even open a food truck," Landin said.
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