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Serramonte is a large 1960s residential neighborhood on the border of
"Daly City: The New Filipinotown"
''Found SF'', 1996, retrieved May 19, 2023.Benito M. Vergara Jr., ''Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City'', Philadelphia: Temple University, 2009,
pp. 31–32
Serramonte is a large 1960s residential neighborhood on the border of Daly City
Daly City () is the second-most populous city in San Mateo County, California, United States. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, and immediately south of San Francisco (sharing its northern border with almost all of San Francisco's southern ...
and Colma in the suburbs south of San Francisco, California, that is also home to numerous shopping mall
A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...
s, strip malls, and big box retailers.
The neighborhood was developed beginning in 1963 by Fred and Carl Gellert's Suburban Realty Company on a former dairy ranch. Serramonte High School, built in 1970 and closed in 1981, was at one time one of the largest schools by enrollment in Daly City.
The nexus of the neighborhood is Serramonte Center, near the intersection of State Route 1 and Interstate 280, in the triangle formed by Callan Boulevard, Serramonte Boulevard, and Junipero Serra Boulevard, which opened in 1968. The mall is particularly popular with Filipinos, who moved to Daly City in large numbers in the 1970s.James Sobredo"Daly City: The New Filipinotown"
''Found SF'', 1996, retrieved May 19, 2023.Benito M. Vergara Jr., ''Pinoy Capital: The Filipino Nation in Daly City'', Philadelphia: Temple University, 2009,
pp. 31–32
References
Neighborhoods in Daly City, California Junípero Serra {{SanMateoCountyCA-geo-stub