And with time running out on their current lease, Bay 101 owners turned to their fallback plans in San Jose.īay 101 owners have been searching for a new home since the land owner, realty group Peery-Arrillaga, sought to build a new 2 million square-feet office development at their current North San Jose site. But voters rejected the ballot measure, foreclosing a Milpitas move. They had sponsored a Milpitas ballot measure last fall that would have allowed the card room to move there and escape what the owners consider suffocating taxes, fees and regulations in San Jose - Bumb at the time said “our business will kind of stagnate” if Bay 101 stayed in San Jose. It isn”t quite the reinvention Bay 101”s owners had initially hoped for. It will cost nearly $900,000 to tear down the old Bay 101 building, Bumb said.

The San Jose Airport Garden hotel, which sits on part of the land now owned by the Bumb family, will be razed to make way for the new Bay 101. And we”re looking for a more toned-down softer contemporary look.”Ĭonstruction is set to begin in May on the $100 million first phase of Bay 101”s relocation, which includes a new two-story building for the card room, a 174-room hotel rising seven stories and a 953-stall parking lot across 16 acres of land. “The M8trix was going for the glitzy Vegas look.

“We”re not looking for the nightclub atmosphere,” Bumb said. But that”s not what Bay 101 co-owner Brian Bumb has in mind for the pending reincarnation of his club across the freeway. SAN JOSE - When Bay 101”s card room competition reinvented itself three years ago as Casino M8trix, it went for all the dazzling flash of the Las Vegas Strip.

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