Mayfield Mall was a shopping mall in Mountain View, California, United States. Operational from 1966 to 1984, it was the first air-conditioned, enclosed shopping mall in Northern California, though it has been an office complex since the 1980s. In 2013, Google rented the entire 500000 ft2 property and ultimately purchased it in 2016 for $225 million and is known as the company's Building RLS1.[1][2]
As a mall
Mayfield Mall opened in 1966 and was the first enclosed mall of its type in the region, taking its name from the original town of Mayfield, which was annexed by Palo Alto in 1925.[3] Its original anchor was JCPenney, which closed stores on Castro Street and University Avenue to consolidate into the mall location.[4]