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The Shops at Tanforan is a regional shopping mall in San Bruno, California, United States. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula , 10 miles (16 km) south of San Francisco city limits. The site was originally used as a horse racing track from 1899 until 1964, when the grandstand was destroyed by fire.
The Tanforan Assembly Center was created to temporarily detain nearly 8,000 ... (1947–63), then as The Shops at Tanforan, a shopping mall ... Contact Wikipedia ...
The following page is a list of shopping malls in the U.S. state of California. The largest malls, with a gross leasable area of at least 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m 2 ), are in bold font, with a ranking number based on size and date.
Tanforan Park was acquired by the Wartime Civil Control Administration in April 1942 [103] and from April to October 1942, used as the Tanforan Assembly Center, where 7,800 Japanese-Americans from the San Francisco Bay Area were held after the signing of Executive Order 9066. For comparison, the population of San Bruno was 6,519 in 1940. [104]
Tanforan may refer to one of these locations near San Bruno, California: Tanforan Assembly Center , a transfer center for interned Japanese Americans during World War II The Shops at Tanforan , a shopping mall built upon the site of the Tanforan Assembly Center
[3]: 22–23 The City of San Bruno requested the new station be named Tanforan Park after the racetrack and later mall that occupied the site, but BART officials, sensitive to the past history of Tanforan as an Assembly Center for Japanese-American citizens during World War II and the recent lawsuit, declined the request in 2002.
The station at Sylvan that was completed in 1963 was demolished in 1998; in April 1999, the Caltrain stop was moved to a temporary location under the I-380 overpass, approximately 3,700 ft (1,100 m) to the north near the Tanforan Shopping Center. A rebuilt station opened at the Sylvan Avenue site in 2003. [3]
The Shops at Tanforan mall was later built on the site; surrounding city streets were named for some of the racehorses who appeared at Tanforan. The city was the site of the crash of Flying Tiger Line Flight 282 on December 23, 1964. During the late 1960s, the I-280 (Junipero Serra Freeway), followed by I-380, was built through San Bruno.