An update on sales at Gables End in Mountain View
I just had to send you this update since you talk about Gables End ALL the time.
I don’t get over to Mountain View that much, but whenever I do, I think of you and your blog. So you can imagine my delight when I was stopped at a light at Alma and Rengstorff this past weekend, and what do I see but a “bike billboard” advertising Gables End (see attached pic for a sample).
I had actually never seen one of these things before. Sure, I’ve seen plenty of those oversized arrows waved by people on street corners trying to drive street traffic to a real estate open house. And I’ve seen the car/truck billboards before. But a BIKE billboard? This was a new one for me, and it made me LOL. If a train hadn’t come by delaying my left turn, I would have tried to catch up to Mr. Bike and take a picture for you.
Gables End. They’re pulling out all the stops until the very last unit sells!
Thanks for the update Burbed reader Mia! Fascinating stuff!
I’m so proud to hear that Regis Homes is spending extra money to help inform the population that there are still some homes available in Mountain View. That said, I’m a bit puzzled – I drove by this weekend and the SOLD signs are gone, but the window coverings to replace them haven’t gone up yet.
What’s going on there?
October 20th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
whatever picture was attached didn’t seem to make it, but here’s a photo of a billboard bike.
I’ve seen great use of truck billboards to harangue politicians as they appear. One of the best was the photo of New Orleans with the levees broken, complete with Grover Norquist’s infamous quote.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
Come of Google employees, you guys moved from segway to bikes for inter-building transportation. We did too. We both are green. What is stopping you from buying Gables End?
October 20th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I don’t understand one thing: remember that article about proximity to the Google shuttle impacting prices in Noe Valley? Why is this not having the same effect on properties along the 40 bus line which runs right to the Google campus? I’m thinking particularly of the Rengstorff corridor, which has a large quantity of relatively affordable condos and townhouses for young Googlers.
October 20th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
We both are green. What is stopping you from buying Gables End?
Ain’t nothin’ green about Gables End, Pralay!
October 20th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Ya know what’s great? Watching places like this unable to sell their units as other similar town home “communities” complete units down the street.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Pralay forgot my ode to Gables End:
Tune: Penny Lane, by the Beatles
Gable’s End, there is a Geiger counter reacting
To every nucleus that’s decaying will show
And all the electrons that come and go
Stop to say hello
On the corner is a bunker cov’ring well water
The little children found a way in from the back
But the groundwater will attack
All their chromosomes, very strange
Gable’s End is in my skin and in my hair
Right next to an eight-lane freeway there
I sit, and meanwhile back
In Gable’s End there is a fireman in a bunny suit
Because the radon makes his meters leave the green
He likes to count the curies that he’s seen
From urani’eem
[sfx: nuclear attack sirens]
Gable’s end is in my blood and in my nails
Whoever let them sell should go to jail
Gable’s end!
and this one’s just for bob, the country music fan:
Tune: All My Exes
All my dachshunds died of toxins
And toxins in a place I’d thought I’d own
But all my dachshunds died of toxins
And that’s why I rent on Latham, screw this loan.
Brunhilde grabbed a filter from the groundwater culvert
And sweet Grizel fell down the well, she passed on before she hit
And Halfrida has a half-life somewhat like polonium
And Kathe already did the math, she’s decayed on 101.
All my dachshunds died of toxins
And toxins in a place I’d thought I’d own
But all my dachshunds died of toxins
And that’s why I rent on Latham, screw this loan.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
I guess they have trouble selling townhouses that are next to the 101, and built on a superfund site, you would think they would go fast though. Afterall this is the RBA.
October 20th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Here’s what Gables End is missing (to bike to the Googleplex):
http://kansascity.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2008/09/08/story5.html
Maybe someday it’ll be a work of art, but so far it looks completely out of place.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Re: Mary Avenue footbridge article:
“It is going to be functional and it’s a work of art, and that’s the best kind of sculpture you can have. It will be a tremendous gateway to Silicon Valley.”
Oh ho! So Sunnyvale is no longer part of Silicon Valley if it’s the gateway to it!
This bridge not only will connect the Sunnyvale and Cupertino ends of Mary Avenue, it goes right by the world famous Homestead High School!
October 20th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Thanks for the link, DreamT. I was wondering what the heck that was! I only get a glimpse going from 85 to 280.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
LOL Madhaus
maybe you can sell that to GE as a theme song?
October 20th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Hmm don’t care much for that 280 footbridge. In my area they built out the Los gatos bridge trail with bridges UNDER the freeway, I prefer that. You can now walk from WG on a trail to downtown SJ.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
That beats the ghetto chain-link walkway over Woodside Road at Middlefield in RWC.
October 20th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
It looks a bit like the Normandy bridge?
October 21st, 2008 at 11:41 am
madhaus thanks for the background on billboard bikes (never seen one of these) and the Grover Norquist quote. We don’t always agree on Real Estate but we certainly agree on politics. the amazing thing about the Bush administration and the brain dead staffers, is that Bush actually expanded government more than any other president in history! But not to pay for anything that people actually wanted or needed like healthcare and infrastructure improvements. It all went to war, with an unquantifiable goal – a war on terror, gosh how do you define winning that anyway?- in the tradition of Vietnam.
October 21st, 2008 at 2:42 pm
Yahoo profit down 64%, laying off 1,400 employees.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:05 pm
WG, that was all part of the plan: starve social services by bankrupting government with the war. Steal whatever wasn’t nailed down. They were sending pallets of money to Iraq and not tracking who walked off with it. They didn’t care.
I seriously want every single one of them in this administration behind bars for the rest of their lives.