San Jose landmark project dropped

Silicon Valley nonprofit leaders are going back to the drawing board after recently announcing the cancellation of a long-anticipated San Jose landmark project. San José Spotlight reported in May that nonprofit Urban Confluence raised more than $3.3 million over several years to build a towering art installation dubbed “The Breeze of Innovation” within Plaza de Cesar Chavez. The group’s funding had dwindled to about $35,000 and the project never got off the ground. One month after declining to discuss the project’s status, the nonprofit’s Executive Director Steve Borkenhagen issued an email Wednesday announcing the project is being dropped in order to support “an even more…