![]() ![]() Saturday’s free daylong celebration will include a festival and a parade. ![]() Silicon Valley’s lone Ikea store anchors the Ravenswood 101 shopping center across the freeway, and the EPACENTER opened in late 2021 as a new creative youth center. Whiskey Gulch was developed into University Circle with the Four Seasons Hotel as its sparkling gem. ![]() But the 2.5-square mile city has undergone startling physical change in the past quarter-century, too. But it remained unincorporated until Jdespite a few unsuccessful incorporations attempts in the 1960s and ’70s, including one that would have renamed the then-Black majority city after Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.ĭivided by Highway 101, East Palo Alto has had a diverse population for decades - partly due to abhorrent redlining policies and gentrification - and is now largely Latino. ![]() The San Mateo County community of East Palo Alto came into being about a century ago, the result of the merger of two towns - Ravenswood and Runnymede - trying to avoid annexation by Palo Alto and Menlo Park. East Palo Alto will be celebrating its 40th anniversary as a city this week, and you’re not alone if that sounds strange to you. ![]()
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