The Shops at Tanforan is an enclosed two-level mall at 1150 El Camino Real in San Bruno, California, beside the San Bruno BART station. It’s still open, but most of the building is set to come down.
The mall opened in 1971 as Tanforan Park Shopping Center, with a department store at each end. Everything between those stores was torn down and rebuilt in 2005, and reopened under its current name.
The rebuilt mall filled up. Then the big stores started leaving, and J.C. Penney closed in May 2025. By then a single developer had bought the ground under most of it, the old Penney store included…