“The one good thing about the Silicon Valley parking lot commute mornings and evenings on Lawrence Expressway is this small open-air structure with fresh produce in front of a backdrop of acres of corn,” Daniel Hindin wrote in a Sunnyvale Solar article in regards to the Corn Palace in 2000.
Quick-forward to March 2019, and with each brothers gone—Joe died in 2007 and Ben in 2013—their cornfield and produce stand had been about to develop into a part of native historical past. The Sunnyvale Planning Fee authorised a venture by developer Trumark Houses to assemble 58 single-family properties on the 8.8-acre web site, which meant the constructions that made up the Corn Palace can be demolished and the cornfield repurposed.
A part of that repurposing is a 2-acre publicly accessible park subsequent to the homes on the nook of Toyon and Lily avenues. Building of the brand new Corn Palace Park just lately started after metropolis officers requested residents to weigh in on three proposed park designs.
The profitable design options an open garden space, two play areas, a tennis courtroom and a basketball half-court, amongst different facilities. Building is anticipated to be accomplished early subsequent 12 months.
