Timber!
Since I’ve lived in Sunnyvale, the Sunnyvale Town Center mall, which interrupts downtown with a large shopping center capable of housing 80-odd shops and stores, has stood abandoned, except for Target at one end and Macy’s at the other. This morning, as I headed over to Bean Scene to get coffee before pounding on a project I’m working on, I noticed that the new construction crew has actually begun the task of making this abandoned concrete tumor a memory.
A few years ago, another construction company was hired by the City of Sunnyvale to rebuild the mall, whatever that entailed. They made the abandoned Chevy’s their construction office. Maybe it was a funding shortfall or something else, but that project was abandoned after the parking lot was resurfaced.
Seeing the western face of the mall, the side facing Mathilda Avenue, under the wrecking ball pleases me greatly. I’m really hoping they build a “place worth caring about”, as James Howard Kunstler called it.
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