San Jose’s newest park will bear the name of a pioneering Chinese American business leader. Councilmembers unanimously approved a plan Tuesday to transform an undeveloped 1.2-acre parcel of land in southwest San Jose into a new park, named in honor of the late Bill Kee, who led a fight in the 1940s to preserve San Jose’s longest standing Chinatown. As councilmembers prepared to vote on the park plan, which supporters said will bring sorely needed open space to a densely populated residential area just west of Highway 87, they heard from two of Kee’s descendants, who spoke in support of the…
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