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This shopping was built in 1957, just before the opening of the widened and expanded Bayshore Expressway in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The expansion of a divided Bayshore Freeway separated East Palo Alto from Palo Alto, leaving disastrous economic circumstances. As a result, the University Village Shopping Center, lying by 1960 east of a huge traffic impediment, could not attract customers from west of the highway. Failing, the center was renamed Nairobi Village Shopping Center in the late 1960s, at a time when African-American residents sought to change the city's name to Nairobi. The abandoned center was demolished in 1989, after it had become associated with drugs and violence.

Demolished in 1989.

PCAD id: 9360