Google has halted work on perhaps its most public initiative in the US, an 80-acre Urban Village in the heart of Silicon Valley in downtown San Jose.

The pause, reported first by CNBC, also puts on hold thousands of residential units and thousands of new offices that were planned as part of the downtown mega-project.

Throughout last year, the Mountain View, C-based tech giant insisted that it was preparing to break ground this year on the transit-oriented mixed-use development Google was planning to build in the neighborhood near Diridon Station.

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