Side streets began to fill with small stores. The old vacant movie theater was turned into a night club. A billiard hall opened up and then expanded. All these things helped to give Downtown Mountain View an unusually strong night life scene. A building boom has just started downtown.
Many major projects are currently under construction, dozens more are on the way.
The types of development range from high rise office buildings to Victorian style row houses. One other major project is the addition of a light rail line to the Downtown Transit Station. The station itself is being redesigned with a plaza and old fashioned train station planned at the end of Castro Street. The new light rail line connects downtown to other areas of Mountain View and areas in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, and Downtown San Jose. Another way to access downtown also just opened last year, the Stevens Creek Trail.