Mountain View is located in the heart of Silicon Valley, Home to many of the world's leading high tech companies, Mountain View has become an area full of cultural diversity. A number of Fortune 1000 companies are headquartered here in Mountain View. Some of these include Google, Symantec, and Intuit. Today, high technology is the basis of the local economy and there are few remnants of the agricultural past. The brightest minds in engineering have come from all over the world for the opportunity to work for these esteemed companies.
Mountain View offers a wonderful downtown atmosphere on Castro St. Located near the 85 and 237 highways off El Camino Real, Castro Street is easily accesable from many directions. Downtown Mountain View consists of the seven blocks of shopping, dining, bars, and the performing arts center. At the end of Castro Street is a transit station which links the Caltrain, Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) light rail and the publis bus system. At the core of downtown Mountain View, the plaza is home to City Hall, the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts and the award-winning Mountain View Public Library. Since 1971, it has become tradition for the city to shut down the street for the annual Mountain View Art & Wine Festival. Year round Castro Street also hosts a farmer's market every Sunday in the Caltrain parking lot. Also, during the summer months, the city celebrates Thursday Night Live (TNL) by closing off Castro Street to cars and providing live music events and car shows. Whether is summer or winter, there is something for everyone in the beautiful Mountain View downtown area.
In the past few years, Mountain View has become a very attractive neighborhood for many buyers. Neighboring cities such as Palo Alto and Los Altos, have some of the most expensive home prices in America. Fueled by the Silicon Valley tech companies, the housing market in Mountain View is very strong and very competitive. The schools are another driving force behind the local housing market. Some neighborhoods in northern Mountain View are within the award winning Mountain View- Los Altos School District. For more information on indivindual neighborhoods in Mountain View, please visit my website rewardrealty.org.
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