Ensure a Fair and Just Relocation Process for Silicon Valley Granite

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To:  
Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)  
Santa Clara County Officials  
City of San Jose Officials  
Concerned Members of the Community

        We, the undersigned, stand in support of Sridhar Kollareddy, owner of Silicon Valley Granite (SVG),  who has shown up every day for 20 years - rain or shine - to serve our families, neighbors, and friends. SVG is being forcibly evicted without any compensation or relocation assistance for the BART Phase II Expansion project.

We call on the Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) to return to good-faith negotiations to create a fair and realistic relocation plan.

According to The Mercury News (May 4, 2025), SVG’s 3-acre yard stores over 7,000 slabs of granite, marble, and porcelain, each weighing up to 1,000 pounds. The company has been a quiet pillar of the local economy, supporting homes, creating local jobs, businesses, memorials, and construction projects across the Bay Area.

But after years of cooperation and uncertainty, SVG was served with a court order to vacate the property by April 30 — just two days after the order was granted. The ruling states that any remaining inventory will be considered “abandoned”, the owner’s life savings worth millions of dollars.

SVG’s legal counsel, Glenn Block, of the California Eminent Domain Law Group, condemned the VTA’s actions:

“The demands placed on this business amount to an impossible task,” he said.  
Calling the treatment of SVG “the egregious of egregious,” Block made clear that the situation violates both fairness and common sense.

We call for the following urgent actions:

1. Withdraw any abandonment order for all agreements 
   
   Declaring valuable materials “abandoned” under impossible conditions is punitive, unethical, and financially devastating.
   
   
2. Re-enter negotiations to reach a fair relocation plan 
   
   SVG has acted in good faith. VTA must do the same and collaborate on a transition plan that reflects the scale and reality of this business.

This situation is not just a business dispute. It’s a test of how we treat entrepreneurs, small business owners, and the working class in Silicon Valley. Public infrastructure should not move forward by destroying livelihoods in its path.

We urge VTA and local officials to act with fairness, decency, and accountability.

Stand with Silicon Valley Granite. Stand for what’s right.