While the economy has slowed Silicon Valley hospitality establishment projects, one developer is bucking the trend and moving forward with plans for a boutique hotel near Santana Row and Valley Fair.
San Jose signed off Wednesday on the special use permits for KT Urban’s seven-story, 85-foot tall, 176-room project named the Olin Hotel, replacing a gas station at 425 S. Winchester Blvd., but not without the neighboring homeowners expressing their longstanding gripes against the proposal.