Jackson Park, Mountain View

Jackson Park just a little nook of a neighborhood covering barely 7 blocks. It is made up of really old homes, the kind where if you cleared away the modern cars you could probably shoot a movie set in the 1930’s, just about. White picket fences and those kinds of droopy trees that seem to have been popular in the pre-War period are prevalent here. Think To Kill a Mockingbird.
Well, almost anyway.

Many of the houses here look the worse for wear as the saying goes. They really do look like they are three quarters of a century old. But don’t let this make you think you will get a break on rent. A house in this neighborhood will still cost you $2000 for a 2-bedroom, which I guess is a deal for Mountain View.

If you are thinking of buying here and taking advantage of the location, you can get one of these older homes—pretty much a box with roof (2000 feet) for about $600K. I suppose anything under a million is a deal for Mountain View. But this is really not much to write home about. You would probably have to raze the place and start over, but you could probably make some money on the resale.

In fact, you will find some just finished homes around here for sale for $1.5 million, so it appears you wouldn’t be the first one to take a home here and turn it into an investment. The other thing that is good about this location is that you are just north of Old Mountain View, so you are in walking distance from all the restaurants and cool bars.

I can see someone with a bit of a Beatnik streak really enjoying living in this area.

Unfortunately I can’t really recommend this location to families with young kids. School test scores for this section of Mountain
View are the worst in the city, have pretty average scores when compared to nationwide standards.

As to Jackson Park itself, from which the neighborhood takes its name? It is a little like the neighborhood itself, kind of small and disappointing.

Overall, I would say this section might be a good place to invest for the future. There are signs that it beginning to undergo a transformation that might make it a great place to have a stake when the real-estate market turns around.

Silicon Valley has become a very familiar and famous place in American television. Jackson Park is home to the famous Silicon Valley which has grown in population over the recent years. Thanks to a wave of immigrants a few decades ago Jackson Park has an very diverse population which include Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese. Each ethnic group brought a touch of their own culture which has blended in with modern Jackson Park. The Japanese hold something called the Obon festival every year which honors their dead ancestors and that draws a lot of curious on-lookers from in and outside of Jackson Park. There is plenty of great shopping in the area which is one of the biggest past times for people in the Mountain View area.