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Home to Seabiscuit wins, San Mateo's Bay Meadows, held its final race on Sunday. Over 10,000 people showed up to the South Bay not-San Francisco Thoroughbred gambling hotspot to bid it adieu. The 74-year-old track, according to CBS 5, is scheduled for demolition to "make way for a development project that includes 83 acres of housing, office, and retail space." (Bah.) To find out now what to do with your hard-earned money, go here and here.
Bay Meadow Rides Off Into the Sunset
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Good riddance to a cruel and inhumane sport.
Dont fret, BC!
You'll be able to watch the ponies race as much as you like at Golden Gate Fields!
Go Baby, Go!
1. San Mateo is not in the South Bay. If anything, it is considered the Peninisula.
2. Bay Meadows was not Sebiscuit's home. Seabiscuit won a couple of races there, but was stabled for a time at Tanforan.
yay! more condos! Hope they build a Borders Books or Jamba Juice!
If they're going to get rid of Bay Meadows, the least they could do was come up with a better plan for housing and retail and the like so that maybe, just maybe, it linked up better with Caltrain, etc.
Greg
there were plans to move the Caltrain station
They are also focusing the development closest to the station
What bothers you about the plan?
I also hear the developer is trying to use mutliple architects in a attempt to avoid that planned community feel
There are also redevelopment plans at Hayward Park Caltrain on the site of a Kmart
All and all I think San Mateo is doing ok
Another point about San Mateo
This project will be much better than the typical TOD in a BART parking lot in suburban sprawl town because much of the street grid around this area is pretty old with smallish homes, many apartments and older local businesses
All within the 1/2 walking radius that planners speak of
there is some resistance to this plan but I could foresee parts of San Mateo, with an improved and electrified Caltrain and this development being a decent walkable place to live
Not as cool as Albany or Rockridge for sure but way better than post WWII suburbs
Horray! Now San Mateo will be as compelling and exciting a destination as the rest of any of the bedroom communities along the 101.
San Mateo isn't really a bedroom community anymore
This is sort of the point
San Mateo is definitely no longer a bedroom community. With this development they can finally cast off the Belmont shackles and aim for the Redwood City stars.
Having grown up in San Mateo I have to say without a doubt San Mateo has become more diverse ethnically over the years as SF has become more homogeneous culturally.
I realize most on here don't care and don't venture much out of the 7x7 (or really about half of SF)
I don't get what "Belmont shackles" could possibly mean. Belmont is a tiny