‘The most egregious of the egregious:’ Business owner in showdown with VTA over land seized for San Jose BART extension

The day before Silicon Valley Granite owner Sridhar Kollareddy was forced to vacate his business of more than 20 years, he worked furiously into the early morning hours in an effort to move off the property as many 1,000-pound slabs of granite, marble and porcelain as he could.

Located in San Jose’s Little Portugal neighborhood, Kollareddy’s roughly 3-acre site stored 7,000 slabs of stone sourced from around the world that are used to make everything from headstones to countertops.