Fairmont Plaza (previously the Knight-Ridder Building) is a 17-story, 79.55 m (261.0 ft) skyscraper in downtown San Jose, California.

Fairmont Plaza is located on a site that was once the center of the Santa Clara Valley's Chinese American community.

The Market Street Chinatown occupied the block from 1866 to 1887, when it was destroyed in a racist arson attack.

In 1909, San Jose's first skyscraper, the seven-story, Garden City Bank & Trust Building, was erected on the site.

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