ThePruneyard Shopping Center is a 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2) open-airshopping center located inCampbell, California, at theintersection of Campbell Avenue and Bascom Avenue, just east ofState Route 17. It was built in the 1960s as thePruneYard Shopping Center. It includes shops, aDoubleTree by Hilton[1] 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 downtownSan Jose.
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.[2] It was completed in 1970, designed to be an upscale shopping center.[3] In 2014 Ellis Partners and Fortress Investment Group LLC bought it from Equity Office.[4]
A major renovation and expansion began in 2017.[1] The movie theater, the first business to open in the mall in 1969 as the three-screen United Artists Movie Theater,[2] was renovated at the turn of the 21st century and became Camera 7;[5] it closed in April 2017[6] 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 1970sfern bar.[7]
The Pruneyard was bought byRegency Centers in 2019.[8] There are plans to add another office building and more retail.[9]
Under theCalifornia Constitution, individuals may peacefully exercise their right to free speech in parts ofprivate shopping centers regularly held open to the public, subject to reasonable regulations adopted by the shopping centers.
Under theU.S. Constitution,states 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.
^abCampbell Historical Museum and Ainsley House; Brey, Karen (2004).Campbell. Images of America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia. p. 41.ISBN0-7385-2917-6.
^Linda Greenhouse, "Petitioning Upheld at Shopping Malls: High Court Says States May Order Access to Back Free Speech",New York Times, June 10, 1980, p. A1.
