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Don Víctor Castro, a Californio ranchero and politician, built an adobe for his family where El Cerrito Plaza stands today. He died there in 1900. El Cerrito Plaza is located on a part of the June 12, 1834 Rancho San Pablo Mexican land grant to Francisco María Castro. Several buildings were constructed by the Castro family over the years.
Albeco, Inc., doing business as Mollie Stone's Markets, operates a small chain of nine supermarkets, located in the San Francisco Bay Area.Established in 1986 by Mike Stone and Dave Bennett (now retired), it has stores in the cities of Burlingame, Greenbrae, Palo Alto, San Bruno, San Mateo and Sausalito, and the Castro, Pacific Heights, and Twin Peaks neighborhoods of San Francisco.
Eden Township (in yellow, center left) within Alameda County as of 1878. Eden Township is a historical township of Alameda County, California in the San Francisco Bay Area region, which includes the present-day cities of Hayward and San Leandro, as well as the unincorporated census-designated areas of Ashland, Castro Valley, Cherryland, Fairview, and San Lorenzo. [1]
Castro Valley is one of the sites where Joseph Eichler built some of the 10,000 or so homes he built in the Bay Area. [34] Castro Valley has a one-screen movie theater, the Chabot Cinema. The Castro Village complex on Castro Valley Boulevard is widely considered the commercial center of town. [35]
Castroville is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States.At the time of the 2020 census the population was 7,515, [5] up from 6,481 in 2010.
The Mountain View Police Department is located two blocks away from Castro Street on Villa Street. [49] Since 1971, the city has held the annual Mountain View Art & Wine Festival on Castro Street by closing down the street to traffic for two days. There is a farmers' market in the Caltrain parking lot every Sunday morning.
During the next decade, A. F. Gilmore announced in 1998 a further scaled down plan with Caruso Affiliated as the new development partner for a new proposal that eventually became The Grove at Farmers Market, a $100-million project on 25 acres (10 ha). [6] Nordstrom signed on in 2001 to build a 122,000 sq ft (11,300 m 2) store.
The Castro Street Fair was founded by Harvey Milk, and the group he led, the Castro Valley Association, in 1974. [1] It attracted over 5,000 people. [1] The event's popularity grew quickly and by 1977, the attendance reached 70,000. [2] The influx of visitors helped promote the Castro district's growing tourist industry.