https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/09/21/covid-afflict-downtown-san-jose-google-village-hope-real-estate-build/

SAN JOSE — Economic ailments spawned by the coronavirus still afflict downtown San Jose, where sales taxes have cratered, city officials say, but Google’s transit village could help to ease the urban core’s maladies.

Sales taxes citywide have nearly recovered to their pre-COVID levels and are down only 1%, Nanci Klein, San Jose’s director of economic development, told a gathering Wednesday sponsored by law firm Hoge Fenton to discuss real estate in the city.