The Pruneyard Shopping Center is a open-air
shopping center
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located in
Campbell, California
Campbell is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. Census, Campbell's population is 43,959. Campbell is home to the Pruneyard Shopping Center, a sprawling open-ai ...
, at the
intersection
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of Campbell Avenue and Bascom Avenue, just east of
State Route 17. It was built in the 1960s as the PruneYard Shopping Center. It includes shops, a
DoubleTree by Hilton
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[ inn, a movie theater originally built in 1964, and three office towers built in 1970, one of which is the tallest building in the area outside of downtown San Jose.
]
History
Fred Sahadi developed the PruneYard Shopping Center as part of a mixed-use development on the site of the Brynteson Ranch, which he bought in 1968.[Jasmine Levya]
"Pruneyard Shopping Center’s massive makeover off to a dramatic start"
''San Jose Mercury News
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'', July 13, 2017, updated July 15, 2017. The movie theater, the first business to open in the mall in 1969 as the three-screen United Artists Movie Theater,[ was renovated at the turn of the 21st century and became Camera 7; it closed in April 2017 and reopened in April 2018 as the Pruneyard Cinemas, with cocktails delivered to patrons' seats and the Cedar Room restaurant in the former location of Boswell's, a 1970s ]fern bar
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.
The Pruneyard was bought by Regency Centers in 2019. There are plans to add another office building and more retail.
''Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins''
In the late 1970s, the mall was involved in a free speech
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dispute with local high school
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students that was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court
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on June 9, 1980.[Linda Greenhouse, "Petitioning Upheld at Shopping Malls: High Court Says States May Order Access to Back Free Speech", '']New York Times
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'', June 10, 1980, p. A1. The Pruneyard case established two important rules in American constitutional law
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:
* Under the California Constitution
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, individuals may peacefully exercise their right to free speech in parts of ''private'' shopping centers regularly held open to the public, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by the shopping centers.
* Under the U.S. Constitution
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, states
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can provide their citizens with broader rights in their constitutions than under the federal Constitution, so long as those rights do not infringe on any federal constitutional rights.
Gallery
File:PruneYard tower.jpg, View across a parking lot of the tallest of the three towers
File:Pruneyard towers.jpg, The towers as seen from Route 17
File:PruneYard Inn.jpg, The inn
File:Pruneyard cinemas.jpg, Entrance to the movie theater in 2005
References
External links
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{{Shopping malls in California
Buildings and structures in Santa Clara County, California
Shopping malls in the San Francisco Bay Area
Shopping malls established in 1970
1960s establishments in California