San Antonio Shopping Center is an outdoor
shopping mallA shopping mall, shopping centre or shopping precinct is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area – a modern, indoor version of the traditional...
located on
El Camino RealEl Camino Real and sometimes associated with Calle Real usually refers to the 600-mile California Mission Trail, connecting the former Alta California's 21 missions , 4 presidios, and several pueblos, stretching from Mission San Diego de Alcalá in San Diego...
at San Antonio Road in
Mountain View, CaliforniaMountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is named for its views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The city shares its borders with the cities of Palo Alto, Los Altos, and Sunnyvale, as well as Moffett Federal Airfield and the San Francisco Bay...
. It is one of the biggest shopping malls in Mountain View, and its proximity to
Los AltosLos Altos is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 27,693 according to the 2000 census. It is one of the wealthiest places in the United States.Most of the city's...
and
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also attracts shoppers from the nearby towns. The mall's
anchor storeIn retail, an anchor store, draw tenant, anchor tenant, or key tenant is one of the larger stores in a shopping mall, usually a department store or a major retail chain....
s include 24 Hour Fitness,
Ross Dress For LessRoss Stores, Inc. is a chain of American off-price department stores, operating under the name Ross Dress for Less. It is the nation's third largest off-price retailer, behind T.J. Maxx and Marshalls....
,
Trader Joe'sTrader Joe's is a privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. , Trader Joe's had a total of 341 stores. Approximately half of its stores are in California, with the heaviest concentration in Southern California, but the company also has locations in 24...
,
SearsSears Holdings Corporation is the ninth largest retailer by annual revenue in the United States, trailing behind Wal-Mart, The Home Depot, Costco, Target, CVS Caremark, Walgreens, Kroger, and Lowe's. It was formed in 2005 by the merger of Sears, Roebuck and Co. of Hoffman Estates, Illinois with...
and
Wal-MartWal-Mart Stores, Inc. is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores. In 2010 it was the world's largest public corporation by revenue, according to the Forbes Global 2000 for that year...
.
History
Starting in the 1950s, the center was an open-air shopping mall, originally featuring Rhodes and Sears, with Mervyns coming later. Over time, the mall was expanded, with Rhodes also converting to JCPenney. Most of the mall was demolished in the 1990s, except for the Sears wing and Mervyns, to make way for Wal-Mart.
Sears had announced that they did not intend to renew their lease when it expired in March, 2007, and liquidated its inventory. Home Depot expressed interest in leasing the Sears space, but at the last-minute Sears re-signed their lease for another 3 years.
The shopping center is easily accessible through public transportation: it serves as a major stop for
VTAThe Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority is a special-purpose district responsible for public transit services, congestion management, specific highway improvement projects, and countywide transportation planning for Santa Clara County, California, United States.-Founding of Santa Clara...
bus lines, and
Caltrain'sCaltrain is a California commuter rail line on the San Francisco Peninsula and in the Santa Clara Valley in the United States. It is currently operated under contract by Amtrak and funded jointly by the City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo County Transit District, and Santa Clara Valley...
San Antonio train station is within a walking distance. Additionally,
Stanford'sThe Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in Stanford, California, United States. The university was founded in 1891 by the Californian railroad tycoon Leland Stanford and named for his recently deceased...
free shuttle service
MargueriteMarguerite is a free shuttle service Stanford University offers to its students, faculty, staff, and the general public. Named after one of the Stanford family's horses, Marguerite operates a few dozen bus shuttles throughout the university and the nearby town of Palo Alto, California.The bus...
operates a shuttle to San Antonio Shopping Center on weekday afternoons and evenings, as well as during the weekend.
Stores
- 24 Hour Fitness
- American Male Salon
- BevMo!
BevMo! is a privately held corporation based in Concord, California, selling mainly alcoholic beverages. The company was founded in January 1994 as Beverages & More! in the San Francisco Bay Area, and re-branded as "BevMo!" in January 2001. By October 2009, the company had 100 stores in Arizona and...
- Chili's
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- Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen, sometimes abbreviated DQ, is an international chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc. The name "Dairy Queen" is taken from the name of their soft serve product, which the company refers to as "Dairy Queen" or "DQ". The first Dairy Queen...
- Daiso
is the largest franchise of 100-yen shops in Japan owned by . Daiso has a range of over 100,000 goods, of which over 40 percent are imported goods, many of them from China. Many of these are own-brand goods....
- GameStop
GameStop Corporation is an American video game and entertainment software retailer. The company, whose headquarters are in Grapevine, Texas , United States, operates 6,200 retail stores throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway,...
- Hollywood Video
Movie Gallery, Inc. was the second largest movie and game rental company in the United States, behind Blockbuster Video...
- Fresh Choice
Fresh Choice is a chain of buffet-style restaurants which operate in California, Washington, and Texas under the names Fresh Choice, Fresh Plus, Fresh Choice Express, and Zoopa. The first restaurant was opened in Sunnyvale, California in 1986, and as of 2010 there are 30 locations with two new...
- Krung Thai
- Kumon
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- The Milk Pail
- Payless ShoeSource
Payless ShoeSource is a discount footwear retailer that cousins Shaol and Louis Pozez founded in Topeka, Kansas in 1956. In 1961, it became a public company as the Volume Shoe Corporation which merged with the May Department Stores Company in 1979. In the 1980s, Payless was widely known in the U.S...
- RadioShack
RadioShack Corporation is a chain of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of North America, Europe, South America and Africa. As of 2008, it had 4,653 company-owned stores, 688 kiosks, 8 service centers, and 1,408 dealer outlets. RadioShack reported net sales...
- Rite Aid
Rite Aid is a drugstore chain in the United States and a Fortune 500 company headquartered in East Pennsboro Township, Pennsylvania, near Camp Hill. It operates more than 4,900 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia, features a strong presence on both the East and West Coasts, and...
- Ross
- Sears
Sears, officially named Sears, Roebuck and Co., is an American chain of Department stores which was founded by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck in the late 19th century...
- Sports Authority
Sports Authority is one of the largest sporting goods retailers in the United States. It is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, and operates more than 460 stores in 45 U.S. states under the Sports Authority name.The company's e-tailing website , is operated by GSI Commerce, Inc...
- Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's is a privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. , Trader Joe's had a total of 341 stores. Approximately half of its stores are in California, with the heaviest concentration in Southern California, but the company also has locations in 24...
- Tung Kee Noodle House
- Wal-Mart
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Neighboring stores
- Cold Stone Creamery
Cold Stone Creamery is an American-based ice cream parlor chain. The company, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is owned and operated by Kahala Corp. The company's main product is super premium ice cream, or ice cream made with approximately 12-14% butterfat, that is made on location and customized to...
- CVS/pharmacy
- Marie Callender's
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- Peet's Coffee & Tea
Peet's Coffee & Tea is a specialty coffee roaster and retailer. Founded in 1966 by Alfred Peet in Berkeley, California as "Peet's Coffee, Tea & Spices", Peet's has a devoted following, sometimes known as the Peetniks due to their strong customer loyalty to Peet's wide range of varietals and...
- Rasputin Music
Rasputin Music is the largest independent chain of record stores in the extended San Francisco Bay Area, California. They have a cult-like fan base in Northern California and sell many rare albums and videos, as well as new and used CDs, LPs, DVDs, videogames, VHS and Beta Videos, Laserdiscs, CED...
- Safeway
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- See's Candies
See's Candies is a manufacturer and distributor of candy, particularly chocolate, in the western United States. It was founded by Charles See and his mother Mary See in Los Angeles, California, in 1921. The company is now headquartered in South San Francisco, California. It has kitchens at its...
- Target
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- The Vitamin Shoppe
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- Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market is a foods supermarket chain based in Austin, Texas which emphasizes "natural" and organic products. , the company operates 284 stores: 273 stores in 38 U.S. states and the District of Columbia; six stores in Canada;...