Downtown San Jose is looking quite different these days than it did three decades ago. Residential buildings and office towers are sprouting up all the time and even more are being planned. Restaurants and bars have also popped up, reinvigorating the neighborhood’s nightlife. Downtown San Jose is now home to 200 eateries, including one Michelin-starred restaurant. These developments are bringing jobs and residents into the downtown area.

According to the Mercury News, Adobe Systems has also based its headquarters in Downtown San Jose with plans to expand further in the neighborhood. Oracle and Amazon’s Lab 126 also has outposts in the area. And perhaps the biggest news of all is Google’s plan to build a transit village around Diridon Station. More than 15,000 Google employees will work there, and the campus will be between six and eight million square feet.

This reinvigoration of Downtown San Jose stands in stark contrast with the failure of The Pavilion, a 1989 operation that aimed to rival Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto. The development flopped in the late 1990s, with retailers leaving the neighborhood en masse.

The mayor of San Jose recently said he plans to oversee the construction of 25,000 new homes in the city, half of which would be downtown. The infrastructure and community is now coming together in order to support that.