‘The most egregious of the egregious:’ Business owner in showdown with VTA over land seized for San Jose BART extension

‘The most egregious of the egregious:’ Business owner in showdown with VTA over land seized for San Jose BART extension

The day before Silicon Valley Granite owner Sridhar Kollareddy was forced to vacate his business of more than 20 years, he worked furiously into the early morning hours in an effort to move off the property as many 1,000-pound slabs of granite, marble and porcelain as he could.

Between a rock and a BART place: San Jose business owner loses property to rail project - Local News Matters

SRIDHAR KOLLAREDDY WALKS between thousands of imported marbled granite slabs, slated to become countertops or gravestones. His business, Silicon Valley Granite, has sold the slabs across the Bay Area for 20 years from his San Jose facility. But last week, he was forced to vacate the property in less than 72 hours to make way for a years-long transit project.The Santa Clara County Superior Court issued a court order April 28 stating Kollareddy mu…