Much-Needed Social Hub Comes to Mission Park

The new 24,000-square-foot retail center at Mission Park will add retail/food (credit: BCV Architecture + Interiors).

SANTA CLARA, CA—A new 24,000-square-foot retail center at Mission Park will add a variety of retail and food/beverage offerings, providing a walkable social hub that is much needed in the area. The retail center, adjacent to the five-story 175-room Element Westin Hotel, will help round out the eventual mixed-use development at Mission Park.

The 46-acre office campus exemplifies the evolution of retail and growing trend of suburban urbanization in the area. That is, transitioning from a spread-out and disconnected region to an increasingly dense and transit-/community-oriented one. In fact, three office buildings were razed to accommodate the new retail center, an almost unheard-of phenomenon in a tech hot spot where the demand for office space is becoming insatiable.