San Antonio Shopping Center

Some workers don’t know what they are doing and some do. Lines suck but totally worth the wait. Because you can’t beat the prices! WOW

Nothing but a square shaped strip mall on a hilly surface, and you can’t walk around it! I thought the point of this place was to have a walk-​around shopping center where you could park your car and shop for useful things like shoes, clothes, household items. Safeway is the anchor store? Big whoop. It’s not like that area was starving for food stores with Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and Milk Pail (which has had to fight to survive the corporate bully developers). The only places I like are the little pizza place and Sajjj, otherwise I am not inclined to turn into this headache of a parking lot. Hills? Why did they make hills?

This shopping center has changed a lot, is changing, and will continue to change over the next couple years, so I have always stopped myself from writing a review, but here it goes.
There are things I really like about this shopping center, and things I really don’t like. Though there is ample parking, it always seems like no matter what time of day, the parking lots can be crazy.
As far as the stores, again, some I love, and some I never go into.
At this shopping center, I shop at Walmart, Trader Joe’s, stop by the Chinese place for sesame balls sometimes, I like Jo-Anne’s for my crafting needs, I work at Milk Pail Market, and I can stop at Bev-​Mo for libations.
Stores have come and gone.
There are a lot of changes coming. For someone who was born and raised here, it is weird to see.
I have hope. I just hope the changes are actual improvements

The local shopping center right by my house. Recently this had a bit of construction so it’s divided into the shopping center and ‘the village’. Parking is tougher now, the lots are tighter, and the hi rise apartments with retail in the bottom floors make it very full from nearly 9am to 9pm everyday. Having said that it has great shops and restaurants so you gotta salute the efforts to keep the place fresh and relevant.
I’m there almost every day!

I’ve been living and shopping here for my entire life and it’s always been a pretty solid shopping center. I’m actually really excited with what it’s turning into now since they’ve been remodeling the shopping center, rebranding it as The Village, all that marketing stuff. But yeah it’s all pretty exciting changes. I guess the core San Antonio Shopping Center – Walmart, Lucky, New Tung Kee, whatever that giant mall is… awkward is it Kohl’s now?, GameStop, etc, these have always been the same. Sometimes the boutiques near Trader Joes seem to switch around quite a bit, but all in all, I think it’s a pretty nice hangout place. Pearl Café is there if you want a drink, there are always ample and plentiful parking spots so that’s never a problem. It’s definitely not a hot hangout place or anything, but a great place to be to run your errands and eat a quick meal.

This place has evovlved over the years. Anyone remember pre-​Walmart; Mervyn’s, Sears, BK, and Esthers? Well with the adjacent Village giving this area new life, I think the center has ceased to be as relevant and I wouldnt be surprised to see more upheaval.

I agree with the other posters. The apartments are great and its nice to have a 24 hour grocery for the rare moments when I need it. I especially love the Pacific Grill and the milk tea place. I work out and then I go to Luus Noodles. I hope they do a better job of accomodating parking IE parking garage and also better accomodation for cyclists and pedestrians. I live behind target so it makes no sense to get in the car and drive there. takes forever to find a parking spot.

Huge disappointment, I thought this was meant to modeled on Santana Row, with retail on ground level, housing above. I have yet to drive into the parking lot. There is nothing here but a collection of chain stores. The retail offerings (mattresses and jewelry) are not very compelling. I think there is one real restaurant (aside from the Counter). No need to venture north of Castro Street.
The Milk Pail is worth the trip but that is about it. Safeway and Trader Joe’s can be found every few miles, so not a draw IMO.

I come here on several occasions and multiple times during the week to do my grocery shopping at T. Joe’s, Safeway, workout at 24 hr fitness, grab a quick sandwich at subway or an elaborate burger at counter. Its my one stop shop for all my daily necessities although I’d definitely avoid going to walmart in this location. Now a days i see police patrol all day and the place looks like a ghetto… Other than walmart, there is Target and its pretty small (Separate review written for target) … and Kohl’s, Ross, BevMo, Milk Pail and some decent thai and korean food places. I seem to discover new hidden stores every time and i may have skipped to mention a couple in my list as well. Right across the road from Safeway is Whole Foods– Los Altos. So its highly convenient so come here and to see that all my immeadiate shopping needs are taken care of.

I’d have to agree with some other reviewers. There’s not much to inspire me to go here except that I do shop at TJ’s reluctantly. I say reluctantly because it’s close to home & parking sucks as usual. I try to go to Sunnyvale but wow, why is parking so problematic here in Mountain View? Go figure. I don’t do Safeway & when I do, I go to my local Shoreline one for scripts. Thaz it. So there’s Counter’s burgers which I have yet to have a good experience with in Palo Alto or Mountain View. Fidelity scores because I use them. Kudos there. Don’t do Starbucks.
Sure hope the shopping center does better in the long run because in the short run of it’s opening, I for one, haven’t any any need to visit other then necessary. As was the case w/​the old San Antonio Shopping Center. Too bad. And no, whatever 21 clothes ain’t gonna bring this boomer in to visit either. My boomer butt bucks go elsewhere, right along w/​my waistline. ;-)

What a disappointment.
When the construction first began on the long time San Antonio Shopping Center, there were rumors of a Santana Row-​type renaissance and an influx of great stores and dining options. As the construction began and the scale and complex went up, it all brimmed with possibility.
Flash forward several years later and while the housing construction is still ongoing and the tenant spaces are not all filled, we so far have:
— Starbucks (along with every other corner)
— Fidelity Investments
— Safeway (large and new but nothing spectacular compared to the nearby Whole Foods and Fresh Market)
— Jared’s Jewelry
— Sleep Number Mattresses
— The Counter Burgers (theres another
nearby on California Street)
So much for a big jump up from prior occupants like Sears, Rite Aid and Big 5.
The Shopping Center has Trader Joe’s but its quickly being surpassed by many nearby malls. Here are a few places that would be at least buzz worthy and have gone up recently at other nearby locations:
— Ike’s Sandwich (there’s one at Stanford but mainly for students)
— Philz (it’s the new Starbucks and fave of many and not nearly as ubiquitous yet)
— Gott’s Roadside, Five Guys, or even another In-​N-​Out versus the too close Counter. I realize Palo Alto has the new Gott’s. Shake Shack (a pipe dream)
— Din Tai Fung ;) (my true pipe dream)
— and for the shoppers: How about Forever 21, H&M, Uniqlo
Instead, the big spots are Safeway and Sleep Number. Unless the last few spots are filled with something spectacular, San Antonio Shopping Center hasn’t upgraded as much as it once seemed like it would.
Obviously signing tenants and getting hot brands and eateries to pick your space is difficult, but I miss Rite Aid if this is all you got.

This place maybe be bigger than Stanford Shopping Center, but I wouldn’t exactly call it a «shopping center.» It’s more of a spread out strip mall, or, as the British call them, a retail park. And after the ongoing renovations are over, it will be a retail park with a fake downtown on one end.
That’s because San Antonio is primarily a large expanse of parking lots, studded with big box stores. Currently, the biggest tenants are Walmart (one of the only in the area), Kohl’s, a Sprouts market, and 24 Hours Fitness (they actually have both a ‘Sports Club’ and a ‘Super Sport Club’). The Milk Pail Market and the Trader Joe’s are two non-​mega sized stores and the only two I frequent.
It’s a convenient center, for sure, but it could be so much more. With underground/​raised parking and a better selection of stores, San Antonio could be a Valleyfair-​esque mall.

This is going to be an amazingly cool place with a lot of fantastic shops, and not a lot of parking.
It’s still in process right now, but I have really high hopes!
I’ll just make sure to bike here.

The shopping center has a few interesting places to stop off in before heading to Castro street. Pearl café is actually one of the prime spots to visit with good food and those pearl milk drinks. With a Kohls nearby it’s a pretty good place to go and Shop after a bite to eat. With make your own t-​shirt shops and a GameStop there’s some fun to be had here. The loss of neutral ground arcade and a few other shops, and the construction for the new Safeway and possible apartment building, have dampened the San Antonio shopping center. Walmart, if we’re being honest makes a mess out of most areas, and its no exception here. None the less; kohls, GameStop, daiso, pearl café, and a few other key «I need a shop like this» stores help make this block in mountain view the only other place besides down town on Castro worth spending time, and money.

this shopping center has definitely gone through many changes since its inception. having read a bit of history about mountain view, my understanding is that this used to be the site of one of the earliest malls in silicon valley, dating back in the 1950s. despite the addition of many key retailers, this mall was eventually shut down, and completely demolished in 1995. even though it was before i became a mountain view resident, i still wonder why this mall was closed and torn down. i would have liked to have seen this mall in its prime.
my husband and i used to frequent sears, but they tore it down last year. and now, there are several buildings under construction in its place. i’m told that one of the buildings will become a new safeway sometime in the future.
currently, the big name stores are:
*24 hour fitness
*ross dress for less
*trader joe’s
*wal-​mart
*the milk pail market
whether to work out, buy groceries, fresh produce, or general household conveniences, you can generally find what you need at this shopping center. there are also several restaurants here. parking is plentiful, but you may have to park a bit farther and walk, especially on the weekends.

Has a lot of small stores. You can get your workout on, grocery shopping on, drank on. get in a few meals with sushi, chinese food, Mexican food, and even put on your Sunday clothes to go to Sears.
Parking lot is weird

Plenty of parking. Poor Center layout.

This is an older shopping center and most of the stores have been here for many many years and is located at the corner of San Antonio Road and El Camino.
You can find the following store here just to name a few:
Rite Aide, Sears & Sears Auto Center, Ross Dress for Less, Bev Mo!, 24 Hr Fitness, Joanne’s, Kohl’s, TK Noodles, Trader Joe’s, Dairy Queen, and Walmart.
Careful when driving through the parking lots especially in the Trader Joe & Walmart area of the shopping center as people drive like ‘bats outta hell.’

Trader Joe’s, 24 hour fitness, Sears, Kohl’s — very convenient.
The Wal-​mart is convenient, but it may be the worst Wal-​mart I’ve ever been to. Perhaps it’s because it was recently renovated, or because it’s a super busy location.
Parking and driving around this shopping center can be really bad. There are a lot of blind corners and angry people. Maybe I’m just a god awful driver, but I don’t know…

What’s not to like? There are so many different businesses in here that I can visit every other day if I wanted! I live across the street from here and for Trader Joe’s, Washington Mutual, Milk Pail Market and Target only I would rate them 5 stars.
In addition, if I wanted to join a gym, 24 hr fitness would be a nice one. There are plenty of places to eat in here… Mexican, Thai, Hawaiian BBQ, milk tea/​coffee, burgers etc.