Santa Clara’s newest neighborhood — the Clara District — is coming to life with 2,000 new homes opening this year As many as 4,500 homes could sprout up on 45 acres of land near Levi’s Stadium ...

It was 1964 when the wrecking ball began tearing apart downtown Santa Clara, transforming what had been, for generations, a quaint city center into the dream of a modern, high-rise, futuristic utopia.

Clara Ence Morse is a political data reporter at The Washington Post. She joined The Post as the Investigative Reporting Workshop intern with the Data team, and previously served as the editor in ...