San Jose city leaders, Tuesday, celebrated the expansion of a program designed to spruce up the streets as well as give a new lease on life for some of the city's homeless residents.
San Jose city leaders, Tuesday, celebrated the expansion of a program designed to spruce up the streets as well as give a new lease on life for some of the city's homeless residents. Officials earmarked the spending of $80,000 to expand the Downtown Streets Team in order to give the entire city an equal amount of shine."This is really the definition of getting back to basics," said San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan.
Many business owners in the Luna Park neighborhood said trash and blight has scared off would be customers. "I saw someone posting in my Google saying that it wasn’t very safe to come here. That it was too dirty," said Francisco Quintero, owner of Maza restaurant. Added Mahan, "We all know that foot traffic is the life blood of most of our small businesses. That requires clean safe inviting areas that draw in more people.
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