by Nathan Donato-Weinstein

After decades of plans that went precisely nowhere, San Jose's Little Italy is finally on its way toward becoming a bellisimo villaggio.

The nonprofit Little Italy Foundation and Los Gatos-based SV Home in recent weeks have acquired five historic – if dilapidated – homes, along with a 10,000-square-foot lot, in the compact neighborhood between Julian and West St. John streets.
On tap is a complete rehab of the turn-of-the-century properties, an Italian cultural center and museum and a wrought-iron arch branding the district, a block away from SAP Center. Construction on the rehabs is already under way.

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