San Antonio Shopping Center
Total retail floor area 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2) | | |
No. of floors | 1 | |
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Parking | 7,692 | |
Website | sanantoniocenter |
San Antonio Shopping Center is an outdoor shopping center located on El Camino Real and San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The shopping center consists of two areas, owned by two separate companies.
- The namesake San Antonio Shopping Center is a traditional outdoor power center anchored by Trader Joe's, Walmart, and 24 Hour Fitness. It is owned by Federal Realty. In late December 2019, the land occupied by Kohl's, 24 Hour Fitness (which has consolidated into another pre-existing, expanded location within the shopping center), JOANN Fabrics, and several other businesses was sold to the Los Altos School District for $155 million for the businesses to eventually be demolished for a neighborhood school for students in the area.
- The Village at San Antonio Center is a newer mixed-use property with apartments, restaurants, a Safeway supermarket. It is owned by Merlone Geier Partners.[1]
History
Starting in the 1950s, the center was an open-air shopping mall, originally featuring
Sears closed its doors in 2010, three years after it had originally announced its departure.[3] Sears and the surrounding strip of retailers were replaced by phase one of The Village, consisting of a Safeway supermarket, apartments, retail, and restaurants.[4] A second phase, anchored by a Showplace ICON cinema, broke ground in 2015.[5]
In 2019, 9.65 acres (3.91 ha) of the shopping center was sold to the Los Altos School district to build a new school intended to be closer to nearby students than
References
- ^ "Discover Premium Retail Properties - Merlone Geier Partners". Merlonegeier.com. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ^ "Shop Talk: Adventures in the pre-teen zone". Paloaltoonline.com. 1995-11-08. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ^ Sears leaving San Antonio Shopping Center Archived 2006-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Groundbreaking Kicks off Development of the Village at San Antonio Center - Mountain View, CA Patch". Archived from the original on 2013-03-13. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
- ^ Daniel DeBolt (2014-07-02). "Deal reached to save Mountain View's Milk Pail | News". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ^ "San Antonio Center". Federalrealty.com. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
- ^ "Los Altos School District". www.mv-voice.com. Retrieved 2021-04-22.