• Help attract investment to downtown, adding jobs, new businesses and mide-development projects;

• Enhance downtown private and public properties, including public spaces, plazas and paseos;

• Strengthen and grow businesses financially;

• Be responsive to the changing marketplace and economic conditions in Downtown San Jose.

The DCDC’s signature project to date is the capital improvement project now called MOMENT at San Pedro Square — in which four retail shops were built into a parking garage fronting San Pedro Street, activating the garage’s ground floor and providing retail spaces for San Jose creatives, makers, and entrepreneurs expanding their brands.