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John and Michele McNellis spread their love for Cal Bears.
Rebuilding Together's Christmas Project with NVIDIA to paint and cleanup a charter school in East Palo Alto.
John writes a guest opinion column about The Alma Plaza project.
Developer John McNellis agrees to swap another house for more commercial footage and larger grocery store.
John McNellis is part of a newly reformed retail committee tasked with developing ways to attract sales tax revenue generating retailers to Palo Alto.
John McNellis proposes tearing down the old Kmart on 41st Avenue and building a new building, complete with garden center and display mezzanine. In addition to Best Buy signing on for space in the Center, McNellis confirmed that negotiations are underway to add a Starbucks coffee shop as well.
Though many in Santa Cruz County have long fought big-box retailers tooth and nail, the county will soon have its second Home Depot, along with a Best Buy electronics store and a renovated Safeway that will approximately double the size of the old one at the top of 41st Avenue.
Over the next few years, proposed shopping centers will change the retail landscape of Petaluma. Palo Alto-based McNellis Partners have already done much of the work on a $10 million, multi-year refurbishing project on 1960s-era Petaluma Plaza.
McNellis Partners begin construction of a new store in Petaluma Plaza.
