When was San Jose&#x27;s downtown booming?  I recall boarded up burnt out buildings before the first boom of the early 00&#x27;s.<p>Before tech SJ was just a backwater with a bedroom community in the Almaden for hardware tech companies and then SW arrived and tech migrated north up the peninsula and up to SF.  But SJ has never had a booming downtown despite Mcenery&#x27;s efforts.