Eastridge Center planned on Hillview greens
Plans for Eastridge Center were announced in February 1968 as a $32 million enclosed shopping mall on San Jose’s east side.
The site covered 200 acres that had been the Hillview Golf Course, an open stretch of fairways and greens that was slated for grading, paving, and buildings.
The project was planned about 6 miles east of San Jose’s central business district, in an unincorporated part of Santa Clara County that was later annexed by the city…