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Revision as of 01:26, 6 August 2007
Cupertino Square (formerly Vallco Fashion Park) is a three-level shopping mall located in Cupertino, California, USA. It is anchored by J.C. Penney, Macy's, and Sears. The mall is managed by Landmark Property Management and owned by a group of local investors led by Alan Wong, Emily Chen, and John Nguyen.
Vallco Park started as a business park in the 1960s, formed from land owned by 25 Cupertino property owners. It was named for the primary developers: Varian Associates, and the Leonard, Lester, Craft, and Orlando families.[1][2]
In the early 1970s, the Cupertino City Council held public hearings on the possible locations of a regional shopping center in the city. After it decided the city could only support one center, the Vallco group found itself competing with another group led by orchard owner Paul Mariani, Jr. In 1973, the city council decided it wanted the regional shopping center on the edge of the city and gave the proper zoning to Vallco.[1]
Vallco Fashion Park opened in September 1976. In its first year of business, it honored the history of Cupertino through several exhibits.[3] Vallco was one of the largest shopping centers in Silicon Valley and soon drew customers from all over the region. However, increased competition from other regional malls, such as Westfield Valley Fair and Stanford Shopping Center, took its toll on Vallco in the 1990s, and it started to decline. By 2006, Vallco had the lowest occupancy rate of any mall in the area, at just 24 percent. It is one of the few dead malls in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The current owners of Vallco began renovation of the mall in 2005. At present, two new parking structures and a 16-screen AMC movie theater are finished. Future plans include a food court, an upscale bowling alley, shops facing the street at the corner of Wolfe Road and Vallco Parkway, and two new hotels.
Vallco Fashion Park's name was changed to Cupertino Square in 2007.[4]
Anchors and Majors
References and Footnotes
- ^ a b Fuller, David W. "Vallco Park: From Orchards to Industry". In Linda Sharman Schultz (ed.) (ed.). Cupertino Chronicle (2002 Edition) (2002 ed.). Cupertino Historical Society. pp. pp. 155-165.
{{cite book}}:|editor=has generic name (help);|pages=has extra text (help); External link in|publisher= - ^ Vallco Business Park still exists and is the home of the Cupertino campus of Hewlett-Packard and a future campus for Apple.
- ^ "Doyle's passion for history: how they named it Cupertino" (PDF), Sunnyvale Scribe, 1977-12-07
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Kraatz, Cody (2007-02-14), "Vallco gets new name to go with its new look, shop", Cupertino Courier
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