Bay Meadows

In an ever-evolving environment, it’s great to gain insight and learn more about the future of retail centers, especially when your neighbor is one of the Bay Area’s premiere shopping destinations offering a unique blend of luxury and lifestyle retailers, dining and entertainment. Shopping Centers have turned into destinations becoming increasingly social, and furthering connections to their local communities with experiential design and events. The pivot has been an intentional one, as online shopping began to reign and foot traffic waned. On the heels of announcing further redevelopment plans to increase height and use in the main mall area and south block of Trader Joe’s and Barnes and Noble, Hillsdale Shopping Center has recently announced a new podcast series for listeners interested in an insider’s look behind the scenes of this transformation, and stories of the leaders and innovations at the forefront of our changing world.

In 2021, Hillsdale Shopping Center celebrated a new partnership with global real estate firm Northwood Investors to both manage the shopping center and to help re-imagine the 47-acre property’s future in partnership with the San Mateo community.  The 2 new podcasts: Backstory Beginnings and Backstory & Beyond, which may listened to directly here, are brough to you by Hillsdale’s Nordwood partners:

BACKSTORY BEGINNINGS

Backstory Beginnings is described as a podcast of short business origin stories with big takeaways. Listen and be inspired by the incredible stories of homegrown creators, movers, and shakers, who are making their mark with meaningful missions, fresh fashions, and next-level sips and bites. Snag pearls of wisdom from visionary founders and leaders.

BACKSTORY & BEYOND

Here, seeker, tastemaker, and innovator – Ward Kampf, President of Northwood Retail, connects with trailblazing founders and business leaders on their beginnings, paths to expansion, pushing the limits, and what’s next.

Conveniently located between San Francisco and Palo Alto in San Mateo, Bay Meadows offers housing within walking distance of Caltrain. Ease of transportation is only one reason you’ll fall in love with Bay Meadows. Smartly-designed, high-quality new homes and apartments sit among 18 acres of open space, which includes parks, a community garden, public art, ball fields, bocce and basketball courts and a new playground. All this just a walk from Whole Foods, Blue Bottle Coffee, ROAM Artisan Burgers, Fieldwork Brewing Co., Humphry Slocombe, Hillsdale Shopping Center and more. Learn more about what Midurban life offers by following our Facebook page.