Sunnyvale Apartments
Sunnyvale is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760.
The city is bordered by the San Francisco Bay to the north, Mountain View to the west, Santa Clara to the east, and Cupertino to the south. It lies along the historic El Camino Real and Highway 101.
As part of the Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale is headquarters to several high-tech companies such as Juniper Networks, Palm, Inc., AMD, Network Appliance, Spansion, Yahoo!, and Ariba, Inc. Honeywell, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (located at the Hendy Iron Works Museum), Lockheed Martin and Spirent Communications also have offices in Sunnyvale. Sunnyvale is also the home to Onizuka Air Force Station (commonly called “the blue cube”), the only active military base in the San Francisco Bay Area. The base, named for the deceased Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka, is the primary artificial satellite control facility of the United States armed forces.
Sunnyvale is one of the few U.S. cities to have a single unified Department of Public Safety where all personnel are trained as firefighters and police officers and can respond to emergencies in either capacity.
In 2003 most of the few remaining orchards owned by C.J. Olson were demolished for a shopping center including a Borders, Starbucks Coffee, and an EB Games. The last bit of commercial orchard in Sunnyvale, located next to Las Palmas park, is scheduled to be replaced with homes and shops.
In 2005, work began on demolition of the Sunnyvale Town Center Mall. The enclosed mall, built in the 1970s, was slated to be replaced by a mixed-use shopping and residential development somewhat akin to Santana Row in San Jose and expected to define “downtown” for Sunnyvale. The project stalled in 2006, however, and is currently on hold, although the two anchor stores (Macy’s and Target) at either end of the old mall are still open for business. In addition, there is an adjacent one-block-long traditional downtown area on S. Murphy Avenue (between Evelyn and Washington) with restaurants and stores.
