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== Background ==
The original project, '''VALLCO Business and Industrial Park, '''was created in the earltyearly 1960s by a group of the city's largest landownerlandowners. Of 25 major property owners, 17 decided to pool their land to form VALLCO Park, 6 sold to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian_Associates Varian Associates] (property later sold to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard]), and two opted for transplanting to farms elsewhere. The name VALLCO was derived from the names of the principal developers: Varian Associates and the Leonard, Lester, Craft, and Orlando families. A neighborhood outdoor shopping center and, much later, the enclosed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallco_Shopping_Mall Vallco Fashion Park], briefly renamed Cupertino Square, were also developed. [this is now known as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallco_Shopping_Mall Vallco Shopping Mall]]. (from: Wikipedia).
Since 2014, the proposed redevelopment of this VALLCO Site has emerged as a key land-use controversy in Cupertino, and prompted the formation of new advocacy groups such as Better Cupertino.
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