The Cupertino real state market is generally more upscale than in some of its
neighboring cities and communities. Cupertino offers a more suburban feeling
including mature trees and established neighborhood shopping centers. It is home
to more established families who are also mature. Homeowners outnumber apartment
dwellers in Cupertino.
Cupertino
Cupertino, California - a city of just over 52,000 people - is located in the
San Francisco Bay Area, about 20 minutes from San Jose International Airport.
Whether you're in town for business or pleasure, permanent or temporary, you'll
find that the City of Cupertino is a community rich in economy, culture, and
sunshine. With one of the most diverse, progressive and technologically savvy
populations in Northern California, Cupertino is quickly becoming a city that
people like to talk about.
Until the mid-1960s, Cupertino remained largely a town of ranches and estate
vineyards. Then two things happened: De Anza College opened, and soon after,
computers came on the scene.
The college, named for the great Spanish explorer whose cartographer named the
creek from which the city took its name, occupies a 112-acre site that was the
location of another winery built at the turn of the last century, called
Beaulieu by its owners, Charles and Ella Baldwin. Their mansion has become the
California History Center.
With 26,000 students, as well as its popular Flint Center and Minolta
Planetarium, De Anza College has become a hub of activity in the city, which has
no real downtown.
Apple Computer arrived in Cupertino in the late 1970s, and has remained in the
same location through all its ups and downs. It's now spread out over dozens of
buildings off De Anza Boulevard, not far from where Apple co-founder Steve Jobs
went to high school. The city has since become home to Portal, Hewlett-Packard
and many other high-tech firms. Vallco Park, now known mainly as a retail
shopping center, was originally a business park developed in the 1960s by Varian
Associates.
Vallco is just a few blocks from where the little village of Cupertino sprang up
at the crossroads of Stevens Creek Road (now a boulevard) and the old road to
Big Basin's redwood mills, now called De Anza Boulevard. Cupertino's growth
obliterated not only the original names but many of the old landmarks, replacing
them with a proliferation of shopping malls. Mervyn's Cupertino Crossroads now
occupies the place where the city's first post office, blacksmith shop and
general store once stood, replacing them with chain stores and restaurants.
Today, most nightlife is over the border in less residential San Jose -- which
had begun to spread tentacles across the valley in the postwar years. Fear of
annexation caused Cupertino to incorporate in 1955, and the population has since
grown tenfold, to more than 52,000. Cupertino was motivated to set its original
boundaries by residents who were concerned that nearby cities' attempts to
incorporate the area would submerge the community's distinctive qualities and
diminish home rule. In this way, "community character" has been an integral
aspect of Cupertino since it was established.
Today, the private sector in Cupertino is dominated by high-tech electronics and
computer corporations. The City serves as a corporate headquarters and center
for research and development. Virtually no manufacturing takes place in the
City, because land and living costs are too high. Representatives of corporate
businesses indicate that their companies enjoy a competitive advantage by having
facilities in Cupertino. This is because highly skilled, sought-after employees
prefer working and living in the Cupertino area, with its moderate size and
unique, balanced mix of high technology firms, retail center, open space,
quality schools and residential areas.
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