San Antonio Shopping Center

San Antonio Shopping Center is an outdoor shopping mall located on El Camino Real at San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California. The shopping center consists of two areas, owned by two separate companies:

San Antonio Shopping Center
Sign at San Antonio Center
LocationMountain View, California, United States
Coordinates37°24′10″N 122°6′31″W
Address2550 W. El Camino Real
Opening date1950 (1950)
DeveloperThe Hahn Company
ManagementFederal Realty Investment Trust
OwnerFederal Realty Investment Trust
No. of stores and services236
No. of anchor tenants3
Total retail floor area250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2)
No. of floors1
Parking7,692
Websitesanantoniocenter.com

The namesake San Antonio Shopping Center, a traditional outdoor power center anchored by Trader Joe's, Walmart, and a 24 Hour Fitness gym and owned by Federal Realty.[1]

The Village at San Antonio Center, a mixed-use property with apartments, restaurants, and a Safeway supermarket, is owned by Merlone Geier Partners.[2]

History

Starting in the 1950s, the center was an open-air shopping mall, originally featuring Rhodes and Sears, with Mervyn's coming later. Over time, the mall was expanded, with Rhodes also converting to J.C. Penney and a Best catalog showroom. 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 [3] to make way for Walmart and additional retail shops.

Sears closed its doors in 2010, three years after it had originally announced its departure.[4] Sears and the surrounding strip of retailers were replaced by phase one of The Village, consisting of a Safeway supermarket, apartments, and retail & restaurants.[5] A second phase, anchored by a Showplace ICON cinema, broke ground in 2015.[6]

References
  1. "San Antonio Center". Federalrealty.com. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
  2. "Discover Premium Retail Properties - Merlone Geier Partners". Merlonegeier.com. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
  3. "Shop Talk: Adventures in the pre-teen zone". Paloaltoonline.com. 1995-11-08. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
  4. Sears leaving San Antonio Shopping Center Archived 2006-07-06 at the Wayback Machine
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-03-13. Retrieved 2012-01-12.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Daniel DeBolt (2014-07-02). "Deal reached to save Mountain View's Milk Pail | News". Palo Alto Online. Retrieved 2019-12-24.
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