San Antonio Shopping Center

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San Antonio Shopping Center
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Sign at San Antonio Center in October 2022
San Antonio Shopping Center
Location Mountain View, California, United States
Coordinates 37°24′10″N122°6′31″W / 37.40278°N 122.10861°W / 37.40278; -122.10861
Address2550 W. El Camino Real
Opening date1950;73 years ago (1950)
Developer The Hahn Company
ManagementMerlone Geier Partners
Owner Federal Realty (original center)
Merlone Geier Partners (The Village)
No. of stores and services236
No. of anchor tenants 3
Total retail floor area 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2)
No. of floors1
Parking7,692
Website sanantoniocenter.com

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.

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History

Starting in the 1950s, the center was an open-air shopping mall, originally featuring Rhodes and Sears, with a Mervyn's opening later. Over time, the mall was expanded, with the Rhodes converting to Liberty House and J.C. Penney and a Best catalog showroom added. In the 1970s and 1980s, Atari Games (located nearby) used the Time Zone arcade at the shopping mall to play test all their arcade games. Most of the mall was demolished and partially reconfigured circa 1995 [2] to make way for Walmart and additional retail shops.

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 Covington Elementary School. There were also plans to designate the land as a new site for the Bullis Charter School, which had 2 campuses with portable units serving as classrooms, housed at the district's two junior high schools, Egan Junior High School and Georgina P. Blach Intermediate School. The original plan was to have the school open by 2023, but the COVID-19 pandemic has since delayed those plans. [6] [7] In 2020, JOANN Fabrics, T-Mobile, GameStop, and Luu Noodle permanently closed in preparation for construction; however, the buildings housing the former businesses currently sit vacant. In 2022, the 24 Hour Fitness located at 550 Showers Drive was temporary closed for upgrades. It reopened in November of that year and the location at 2535 California Street permanently closed, consolidating operations to its Showers Drive location. Kohl's is set to close sometime in 2023 and demolition is set for summer 2025. The new school is set to open for the 2027–2028 school year.

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