North San Jose's Future is Looking Up Vision North San Jose plan approved by the San Jose City Council in June 2005 provides the blueprint for a new land use policy along area transportation corridors that will see future growth go up, not out. Driving up North First Street and into the surrounding industrial areas is like taking a trip back in time. Suddenly, it’s the 1970s. The semiconductor industry is skyrocketing. Dozens of related high technology businesses are being started each year. And these infant companies need millions of square feet of research and development and light … [Read more...]

Borelli Investment Company Wins "Land Deal of the Year" Award Borelli cited for major transactions in Milpitas and San Jose in San Jose Business Journal's Structures supplement San Jose, California, December 13, 2005 — Coming off a year in which Ralph Borelli and Borelli Investment Company handled seven land transactions worth $56 million to earn the Association of Silicon Valley Brokers (ASVB) Land Broker of the Year award, the question was: what would Borelli and his firm do for an encore? How about selling 50 acres of unused county land east of I-880 in Milpitas, in a transaction … [Read more...]