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by whataboutism 2865 days ago
If you aren't familiar with this neighborhood, it is incredibly pedestrian friendly, not only can you walk to all of those stores, it is located next to a Caltrain station.
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Pedestrian friendly _for the Bay Area_. It's still a car-strewn wasteland by most civilized standards. I used to walk to lunch there multiple times a week, and bike to work a few times a week also. I do not care much for the Bay Area's suburban form.
I worked at your old company :-)
We have to give credit to the foresight of whoever planned this out, allowed it or luck, I remember about 20 years ago, there was a mall with a Sears and Montgomery Wards where the Safeway/3-4 story condos/apartments/restaurants are now and that Whole Foods was not there, though it seems as if San Antonio Road has had one lane or more blocked over that time continuously as buildings have been torn down/going up.
Interestingly, that area was home to not just one mall, but three: http://web.archive.org/web/20080112061658/http://members.aol...

I've been around long enough to remember the Old Mill, and San Antonio Shopping Center in its prime (if it had one), but Mayfield Mall was already HP when I was young.