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Shops At Tanforan sold, will become biotech office space
The mall has been around for more than 50 years.
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JC Penney at Tanforan Photo credit Justin Sullivan / Staff

  By Dallas Osborn, KCBS Radio


San Bruno's Shops at Tanforan has been a staple on the peninsula since opening as a shopping center in 1971. It's future has become clearer this week as Southern California-based Alexandria Real Estate has reportedly purchased the mall for $328.5 million and will transform it into a tech campus.

Tech companies, science companies, and tech firms are expected to make the upcoming office space home in the coming years.

Tanforan will continue operating as a shopping center for now, but will soon go the way of previously shuttered Bay Area malls like Cupertino's Vallco & Richmond's Hilltop Mall.

Tanforan was a bit out of my range except for my years at castle highland/st barbarian when I was traveling to and fro between svale & sf. I’d stop by occasionally. I grew up in vallco so I have some mallrat roots. I think the last time I was at tanforan was on the way to memorial for an Rm friend just before the pandemic. Hardly recognized the place, but such is the case with most malls now.