Welcome to Mountain View: Look at some blight.
Enter this Bay Area city, home to Google and dining hotspot Castro Street, via El Camino Real from the south and the first thing you see is a shuttered muffler shop with boarded up and papered over windows, sharing a crumbling parking lot with a defunct used-car dealership.
Mountain View — median family income $158,000 — is far from alone. Around the Bay Area, vacant eyesores gape.
Welcome to San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Fremont, Oakland and many other Bay Area cities: They’ve got blight, too.
Struggling downtowns in San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco receive plenty of