🆕 Downtown Santa Clara: Past, Present, and Future [2020]

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This video covers topics on Downtown Santa Clara, CA:
-Santa Clara Downtown revitalization
-history of Downtown Santa Clara
-Urban Renewal Santa Clara
-Franklin Square
-Downtown Santa Clara Shops
-Santa Clara downtown project
▬ Contents of this video ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Start
00:25 - What and Where is Downtown Santa Clara
00:33 - Franklin Square: Home to a Number of Great Business
01:26 - University Plaza Building Right Across Franklin Square
01:56 - Historic Santa Clara Post Office: The Oldest Building in Downtown
02:09 - Superior Court: Santa Clara Courthouse
02:15 - Fun Fact!
02:21 - Plaza Park: Location of the Mission Branch Library
02:39 - History of Downtown Santa Clara
03:35 - Early History of Santa Clara
03:43 - Town of Santa Clara Started to Take Shape in the 1850s
04:04 - Santa Clara College founded in 1851: Oldest Operating Institution of Higher Learning in California
04:18 - Train Station Established in 1863
04:55 - Turn of the Century for Historic Downtown
06:42 - So What Happened to Downtown Santa Clara?
06:59 - Population grew by 50,000 in 10 Years
07:10 - A New Era for Santa Clara: Popularity of Downtown Santa Clara Declined
07:51 - Urban Housing Act of 1954: The Demise of the old Downtown Santa Clara
09:43 - Reclaiming our Downtown: The Restoration of Downtown Santa Clara
10:40 - Happening Now: Be a Part of Downtown Santa Clara's Restoration
10:54 - A Very Special Thanks
11:16 - Outro
You can learn more about Downtown Santa Clara by visiting: santaclaraliving.com
Reclaiming Our Downtown:
reclaimingourdowntown.org/
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Want to find out more about What's Happening in Santa Clara's Downtown.
City Plan: www.santaclaraca.gov/our-city...
www.thesantaclara.org/blog/up...
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[@JTBSnetwork]

Loved this video. Santa Clara deserves a great downtown.

[@otiliomartinez1167]

Very nice place

[@LighthouseTravelTour]

Thank you Vincius for this wonderful story telling. From another Santa Clara City Woman Owned Business of 20 years. Smiles Donna West, Core Team of Reclaiming Our Downtown, and Business Historian at Lighthouse Travel & Tours.

[@santaclaraliving]

Thank you Donna.

[@Mike-xi6ff]

I love Santa Clara

[@Ellie80681]

I hope to relocate there for work all the way from CT. Looks beautiful!

[@thebrasilgroup]

CT sounds pretty nice too especially this time of year. The weather here is definitely a plus. Best of luck.

[@keithadams8976]

Hi Vinny. Heck of a job ! Thank you very much. We arrived in March 1968 just after the demolition. A great pity as we are the only City in the Rail line to not have a down town. Sure hope the rebuild becomes a reality in my life time. In that regard, things have to get moving now ! Cheers, Keith

[@santaclaraliving]

Thanks Keith.

[@claudiapaz1170]

Que bonito

[@dsouza4746]

I grew up a few blocks from there on Fremont street. That area was all Portuguese people . My uncle opened Souzas Bakery on El Camino. I now retired and live in Portugal but I miss my hometown. I’m an SCU grad as well

[@santaclaraliving]

I remember Souza's Bakery. I am doing a short video on the SES Hall and Portuguese in Santa Clara. Hope to be complete it by the end of the year.

[@dsouza4746]

Sounds good. There are still plenty of them there. In fact next weekend at the Santa Clara Marriott is the annual Luso America (Luso means Portuguese) Convention where Portuguese from all over the state get together to celebrate our culture

[@yankeeuk1]

I grew up in Santa Clara! I can't afford to live there anymore 😢

[@gerardcmoi]

Thanks for this informative and documented video.

[@GajendraKarle]

I am living in Santa Clara from last 10 years. Only place I was able to live that long after my birthplace. The day when I got in Santa Clara. I was wondering about the downtown of Santa Clara. Really great information. I would love to support the moment. It would be really great if I able to contribute something.

[@santaclaraliving]

Thanks for sharing. Your story is similar to many Santa Clarans including my own. Hope to see you around the city sometime.

[@rupommortal]

Excellent! I wish, I could live there.

[@edenkifetew1268]

Where u From

[@LighthouseTravelTour]

Hi Vinny, Do we know if any of the 20 imported homes from Boston at the beginning 1860s are still standing? From one researcher to another. Thank you for sharing.

[@santaclaraliving]

I should definitely do a video on that topic.

[@totesmygrotes]

"And I almost forgot this giant parking lot."

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[@jamescandelaria4840]

He is right about one thing, "OK it may not seem like much of a downtown, but Santa Clara's downtown was once a thriving". Yeah, it WAS, until city council members turned it into a housing Habitrail to stuff more and more people in. Then there is the 49's deal that ruined the natural historical feel of Santa Clara. The city I grew up in was once home to many cherry and apricot orchards and the timeless Corn Palace property now filled with high rise dense housing. Now they can't even take care of my other home, the International Swim Center, shutting it down suddenly and unexpectedly without warning to the Swim Club. I will never go back to visit.

[@johnl1074]

All cream and roses... unless you happen to live in one of the downtown homeless encampments. Or the fact that the cost of living is 114% higher than the national average. Or the "average" cost of a house in Santa Clara is $1.45M. IOW... there is a "flip side" to the story presented above. And yes... I live in the South Bay.

[@santaclaraliving]

I am not aware of any downtown Santa Clara homeless encampments.

[@TravelChimp]

I have just applied for a job which is based close to Santa Clara. Ill be the happiest guy on the planet if i get it and get to relocate 🙏

[@thebrasilgroup]

I wish you the best of luck. If you ever have any questions about Santa Clara give me a call.

[@TravelChimp]

@@thebrasilgroup thanks a lot Vinicius, appreciated!!

[@sanjikun7776]

Looks just like gta San Andreas

[@billbye2427]

very interesting; sadly the good old "urban renewal" concept simply crapped out another viable old town community.

[@santaclaraliving]

It is considering Santa Clara's Downtown was quite developed large. Shame to loose all those old and historic buildings.

[@robertchilders8045]

You can't live in the past! It only makes you sad ! I once loved S.C. but it along with the rest of Silicon Valley it has turned into a hellhole of corruption and incompetence and over priced everything. The rents are horrible! It is overrun with foreigners- what ever happened to one of America's greatest towns? So glad to have escaped from there! It looks like greed has won out! Feel I have lost a large part of my past!

[@juncondoonflanjacontose7399]

Lol, I wish they didn’t showcase “The Bronco” Bar. That bar is a dump, and is bringing down that are inside Franklin Mall. Every night there are police there arresting or pulling someone out of that bar. The patrons go out to the parking lot and blast there music and keep us all up in the neighborhood. So sick of it. Anyhow, Growing up here we were always laughed at because we were the only city with NO downtown. Every other city had nice ones, embarrassing.