California News – 06-01-2021

Google has purchased new site for San Jose downtown transit village

  • Google’s new site in San Jose is a church at 56 S. Montgomery St. in the downtown area which cost them $11.7 million in cash
  • This area that Google has purchased is a key component in assembling the land they need to develop an all new transit-oriented neighborhood
  • This goal of developing the downtown San Jose neighborhood began in December of 2016 where Google purchased a bakery and an old telephone company
  • In total, Google has spent around $470.7 million on purchasing parcels by the Diridon train station along with the SAP Center in downtown San Jose

California and “orange tier”: which restrictions will go away

  • Nevada, San Solano, Sacramento, and San Joaquin counties are now transitioning to orange tier (a.k.a the moderate tier of COVID regulations) 
  • For outdoor gathering, 50 people are allowed and Indoor is largely discouraged with a maximum of 25% capacity
  • In concerns to Private events; Private events have an outdoor capacity of 100 people and an indoor maximum of 150 (if all are vaccinated)
  • Most paces in these counties like restaurants, churches, movie theaters, hotels, etc. Are limited to either 50%, 25% or 15% capacity and will vary by service

California highway: Plane making emergency landing

  • Yesterday on May 31, an LAPD airplane made an emergency landing on a very busy highway here in California
  • Luckily no one was injured and the plane touched down a bit before 7 p.m. local time on the U.S. 101 at about 35 miles north of LA

By K Buenavista

Mr. Buenavista is a writer that specializes in breaking down complex topics into easy to understand formats that appeal to a wide range of news seeking readers, without missing the important details. He handles a majority of the daily news reporting at Easy-Ad, and has written on many other websites. He resides in Southern California.