San Jose Strong Neighborhoods Initiative

San Jose Redevelopment Agency

San Jose, California

January 2002

to

February 2002

San Jose is embarking on a new venture by creating inter-departmental staff teams who will work closely with

neighborhood advisory groups to develop plans for enhancing many of the city’s older neighborhoods. In the first

phase, plans were developed for ten individual neighborhoods. While different design teams were retained to work

with the various neighborhoods, Strategic Economics was retained to provide economic support for all ten plans.

The firm developed a series of indicators comparing each neighborhood’s economic and demographic conditions

to the city as a whole, in addition to evaluating real estate market trends and conditions. Strategic Economics

also identified key development opportunity sites in the neighborhoods and made strategic recommendations as

to what type of development projects should be considered for these sites.