Apple Park, Vallco & Main Street

In the early 1960s seventeen landowners pooled their land as VALLCO Business and Industrial Park, named for Varian Associates and the Leonard, Lester, Craft and Orlando families. (City of Cupertino) The Leonards grew prunes and apricots for Gerber, and in 1964 Burrel Leonard sold 100 acres to Varian. (Online Archive of California)

Vallco Fashion Park opened on September 1, 1976, with small parks along its walkway showing local history from apricots to Klystron tubes; the larger western part of the mall was demolished in 2019. (Wikipedia) Across Stevens Creek Boulevard, Main Street Cupertino was planned in 2012 as the city’s first modern attempt at a downtown. (Cupertino Patch)

Apple Park opened in 2017. Its courtyard is planted with apricot, olive and apple orchards, and a 1916 redwood barn built by John Leonard was kept and rebuilt on the site. The Visitor Center, opened on November 17, 2017, is the only part of the campus open to the public. (Wikipedia)

Apple’s earlier headquarters, the Infinite Loop campus at De Anza Boulevard and Interstate 280, was completed in 1993; its company store closed on January 20, 2024. (Wikipedia)