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3 unusual facts about Great Mall of the Bay Area


Great Mall of the Bay Area

The Great Mall of the Bay Area, which opened on September 22, 1994, was developed as a joint venture between Ford Motor Land Development Corporation of Dearborn, Michigan and Petrie Dierman Kughn of McLean, Virginia.

The plant closed down in 1983 in part due to increasing competition with Japanese auto manufacturers aptly narrated in David Halberstam's book The Reckoning.

Silicon Valley BART extension

This extension will bring BART south from Warm Springs to Berryessa station, with an intermediate Milpitas station (originally to be called "Montague Station") located adjacent to, and connected by bridge to, the VTA's Montague light rail station near the Great Mall of the Bay Area and the Great Mall/Main Transit Center.



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