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I would note that Home Depot was a proposed lease and not a sale, and people were most worried about awful traffic immediately next to the highway interchange (
by kurthr 9y ago
I would note that Home Depot was a proposed lease and not a sale, and people were most worried about awful traffic immediately next to the highway interchange (a Santana Row which went in around the same time wouldn't have been better),
but 'that was the rumor in 2003-4 when it traded hands' which I guess you didn't hear. I lived closer to caltrain.
Edit: If anyone would like a longer reading of the Home Depot kerfuffle-
https://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2002/2002_02_22.hdtimeline.html https://www.mv-voice.com/morgue/2002/2002_02_22.hdtimeline.h...
- DrScump 9y agopeople were most worried about awful traffic immediately next to the highway Where better to put a big box store than away from residential property and landlocked by a freeway? The Sunnyvale Home Depot has no such traffic issues, and it is only accessible from Kifer... which is not a big road. The whole "traffic!" issue was a crock instituted to chase a dream of a "Santana Row West" which never had a chance. The subsequent new huge Safeway Marketplaces at Hacienda and Bernardo/ECR create far more traffic, both in car trips and truck deliveries, yet they engendered no complaints. The result: the property became a medical center that generates essentially zero sales tax revenue for the city; that lost half-million a year goes to Sunnyvale's Home Depot and Lowe's instead.