West Valley Mall and Tracy’s I-205 bet
West Valley Mall is at 3200 Naglee Road, just north of Grant Line Road in Tracy, California. You don’t have to be sentimental to see why it ended up there: the spot is made for people on the go.
The mall sits just off I-205, the short freeway connector between I-580 and I-5, so it has always been both a part of Tracy and a stop for people driving between the Bay Area and the Central Valley.
In the early 1990s, as Tracy got bigger, shopping followed a familiar pattern: first big stores like Walmart, then the main attraction, an indoor mall meant to be the main place to shop indoors…