{"id":56737,"date":"2025-05-16T09:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/little-to-show-san-jose-landmark-raises-3m-before-going-silent\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T09:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T16:30:15","slug":"little-to-show-san-jose-landmark-raises-3m-before-going-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/little-to-show-san-jose-landmark-raises-3m-before-going-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Little to show\u2019: San Jose landmark raises $3M before going silent"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Silicon Valley nonprofit raised more than $3.3 million to build a towering art installation in downtown San Jose \u2014 but the group\u2019s funding has dwindled to about $35,000 and the project never got off the ground. Since 2017, Urban Confluence executive director Steve Borkenhagen has touted a plan to create a landmark in the city\u2019s downtown core to draw visitors and tourists. The nonprofit\u2019s leaders likened the monument to San Jose\u2019s equivalent of the Golden Gate Bridge or Eiffel Tower. The group hasn\u2019t provided any updates on the project in three years, despite raising millions from private and public…\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A Silicon Valley nonprofit raised more than $3.3 million to build a towering art installation in downtown San Jose \u2014 but the group\u2019s funding has dwindled to about $35,000 and the project never got off the ground. Since 2017, Urban Confluence executive director Steve Borkenhagen has touted a plan to create a landmark in the …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}