East Foothills, San Jose East Foothills, San Jose East Foothills is a census-designated place (CDP) in Santa Clara County, California, United States and a neighborhood of San Jose. The population was 8,269 at the 2010 census. The area is more commonly referred to as East San Jose, and is located about 4 miles east of downtown San Jose. This should not be confused with the former city of East San Jose which was annexed by the city of San Jose in 1911. There have remained some unincorporated pockets surrounded by incorporated San Jose which are now part of a city/county agreement to annex the
Downtown San Jose the Fairmont Hotel, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, the campus of San Jose State University and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library. The SAP Center, just west of Guadalupe Parkway, is also normally considered to be part of the downtown community. Downtown is a major tech cluster in Silicon Valley. It is home to Adobe World Headquarters, BEA Systems HQ, and numerous facilities and offices of major tech companies, including Amazon Lab126 and Google. The Bay Area's largest news organization, the Mercury News is headquartered on St. James Park. Downtown San Jose has a large concentration of hotels