The Village At San Antonio Center

Great place, great shopping! Plus the Safeway is awesome!

This place is super awesome and convenient if you live in the adjoining apartment/​condos. There is a big safeway, a couple of quasi acceptable restaurants, a starbucks, a dog park, and a dry cleaner + beauty salon on the ground floor of the condos
Now if you don’t live at the adjoining apts/​condos I don’t see much reason for coming here unless this Safeway is the most convenient market in relation to where you live.

A new part of San Antonio Shopping Center that has opened up in the last 2 years… Business buildings, with apartments on top, wrap around parking lots. Safeway, Starbucks, and VERY expensive restaurants… Park in the ‘electric car’ parking spaces that’s unenforceable, and they hare the easiest in and out of the Safeway lot… Be careful the numbers of accidents in the first few months here was massive!

This is an attachment to our local shopping center. A new *wing* if you will, to the San Antonio Shopping Center.
Some exciting new eateries, and some stores I really can’t see being there more than a couple more years.
Do we really need a Sleep Number bed store???
I frequent the Safeway, adore Chili’s, love The Counter, and can’t wait to try the pizza place and the Veggie Grill.
Parking can be a hassle. Either park to the side of the Safeway, or just go straight up to second floor parking and safe some frustration.
I remember Sears, a sports store, and a Burger King here years ago. Though this is definitely a nice upgrade, a shopping center this size always comes with the usual pains of parking, and just getting around.
It is nice to have some new restaurants. I just wonder if everything here really *fits*.
*shrug*
And I can’t imagine living at the Village apartments and looking over all of this. Bless them when you come to shop.

Definitely an upgrade over the dirty old shopping center that sat in the same spot before.
It can be crowded, but so is Santana Row in San Jose– you could always go to Eastridge or one of the other broken down malls there instead! Traffic is no worse than Walmart has been forever.
The dog park is for anyone to use and it is great. Lots of friendly people there, and of course the occasional weirdo who values dogs over people, but that’s life.
Some shops I don’t use, like the jewelry store or the mattress place… but then again I never used anything other than Sears in it’s old incarnation. The new Safeway is fancier and bigger, and I didn’t notice until now that the old one was a bit tired.
Definitely better outlet for The Counter than the one in Palo Alto. I’ve eaten at the Palo Alto Counter about 6 times, and the 3 times I’ve been to the MV location it was definitely better.

Im all for new eateries and places to hang out in this area. The Counter, Pacific Catch and the Starbucks with a Clover machine is a plus. Veggie Grill, Paul Martin’s, and the Safeway are ok. The parking in the Safeway however is fucking horrendous. Still looking forward to the handful of other new eateries promised and we’ll if the situation improves or not. 3.5 stars

This is not a village, it is an overpriced apartment complex (As of May 2014 — $ 3275 for a one bedroom, one year later May 2015 — $ 3200 for a studio). It is a strange mix of retail (groceries, jewelry, mattresses and financial products). Calling it ‘Carmel Village’ is ridiculous. This is not Carmel and it most certainly is not a village.
The new restaurants (Pacific Catch/​Paul Martin) are good, but this was supposed to be Mtn View’s version of Santana Row, the same developer bought the property, what the heck happened?
The entire parcel of land bordered by Showers drive, California, El Camino and San Antonio is a mess, it looks like the City gave property owners the green light to do whatever they wanted and the result is a hodgepodge of businesses which appear to have been dropped from the sky. They should bulldoze it and start over.

Be prepared for crazy! The Village is nestled (not the right word, more like plopped) in one of the busiest areas surrounded by stores, streets, and chaos galore in this Mountain View/​Los Altos evolution. Turning into this shopping center can give one a mini heart attack!
There are however some reasons to visit:
–Safeway (in about a two mile vicinity there are probably about seven grocery markets but this Safeway is on the larger side)
–Starbucks (a nice, new Starbucks that can still be crowded at times)
–random jewelry store… no thanks
–The Counter (The SJ/​Palo Alto burger staple has finally reached the LA/​MV area! The best veggie burger ever.)
–Apartments (if you live here I guess)
–A few other restaurants one of which, Paul Martin’s, is located directly under the apartments
Parking is okay… they have a large lot plus there are other nearby lots with plenty of open spaces if you aren’t opposed to walking another 200 feet.
it is slightly difficult to know what is considered The Village as the area by the Milk Pail and Trader Joe’s also kind of morphs into this vicinity.
All in all, some reasons to come and some reasons to stay away.

My husband and I were going through the new Village at San Antonio Center last week. I wanted to see what shops are in this new venue. The old San Antonio center for me, was there for so long, I could close my eyes and see everything that was there. (Yes, I worked at the Sears Store that used to be at this location, many moons ago…)
«Is there anything in this place that interests you?», he asks. Well, not really. It’s Santana Row lite, i.e. the current architecture trend of the Lifestyle shopping center. There’s a gym and a new Safeway.
«Oh, so they should just build shopping centers that fill your needs, right?», he chuckled. Well, yeah. There’s a jewelry store and a mattress store, too. Yawn. a Starbucks, too. Excitement abounds at this place.
Well, I didn’t see anything that looked that interesting. It was your typical mixed use Residential/​Retail.
I don’t think I’m the demographic that this complex wants to attract.

Opened for about a year now, a combination of retail and apartments. Safeway is the anchor store which new and very modern. There is also a stand alone Starbucks coffee as well as one in Safeway. Kinda weird. The Counter restaurant and a jewelry store round it out. More retail space available which may make parking a bit troublesome later.

It looks like it’s going to have some great shops, but parking is already a little sketchy.