Blossom Hill Road Is About to Get a 99,000-Square-Foot Sporting Goods Store. The Sunday Market Isn't Going Anywhere.

Every Sunday morning at 9 a.m., a parking lot off Winfield Boulevard fills with canopy tents, produce crates, and the smell of something being grilled to order. More than 40 growers and food vendors set up in the same corner of the Westfield Oakridge lot they have used for 17 years. A few hundred feet away, permits are moving through the city for a store nearly two and a half times the size of the one it is replacing.

That is the real story of this stretch of road right now. Not that a mall corridor is attracting bigger retailers, corridors like this always do, but that the oldest, least permanent-looking institution on the block has quietly outlasted every anchor built around it, and is on track to outlast this next wave too.

The Store That's Replacing Itself, at Twice the Size

Dick's Sporting Goods has run its Sunrise Plaza location at 680 Blossom Hill Road for decades, in a box that comes in at roughly 40,000 square feet. That store isn't closing quietly. It's being replaced by something built for a different kind of trip. Down the road at 920 Blossom Hill Road, on the rebuilt site of a Home Depot destroyed by fire in 2022, the company has filed permits for a nearly 99,000-square-foot House of Sport, its newer format built around a climbing wall, a golf simulator, and batting cages, with an opening targeted for 2027.

Nearly two and a half times the footprint, a few blocks from the original. This isn't a chain quietly closing an aging store. It's a chain betting that a sporting goods run on this particular road can be treated like a destination the way Oakridge treats a Saturday shopping trip, not a five-minute stop on the way home.

The Corridor's First Western-Wear Store

A short drive further down, at 932 Blossom Hill Road, Boot Barn is building an 18,277-square-foot store on the former site of Wagly Veterinary Hospital, also targeting 2027. It will be the chain's first San Jose location. Right now, the closest Boot Barns sit in San Martin and Livermore, which means anyone on this side of the county who needs work boots or western wear has been driving out of it to get them.

Both leases reportedly ran through the same commercial brokerage, Econic. That's less a coincidence than a signal about how the corridor is being read by the people whose job is reading corridors: this half-mile of Blossom Hill Road looks underserved for its size, not saturated.

Why Two National Chains Chose This Road, Now

Part of the answer is traffic. At the Snell Avenue intersection, Blossom Hill Road carries more than 38,900 vehicles a day, roughly 50 percent more than Snell Avenue itself carries crossing it. That gap is the kind of number a leasing broker puts on the first page of a pitch, and it's also a plain explanation for why a chain with zero San Jose stores is willing to build new instead of waiting on a cheaper vacancy elsewhere in the county.

The other part is that vacancies here don't sit open long. Retail space across Silicon Valley has tightened to a vacancy rate around 4.9 percent as of this year's leasing activity, which leaves landlords with little reason to cut rent and gives growing chains a reason to build rather than wait. That's a specific answer to why these two leases landed in 2026 instead of five years earlier or five years from now. The easy vacancy that used to sit open on a corridor like this isn't sitting open anymore.

It also isn't the first time this stretch has turned over its anchors. Sears closed its Oakridge store at the end of March 2018. Living Spaces took over most of that building in 2019. 99 Ranch Market opened as its own anchor in 2022. The pattern on this corridor has been a new anchor arriving roughly every few years, each one bigger or more specialized than what it replaced. The House of Sport and Boot Barn are just the next entries in a cycle the mall has been running for close to a decade.

The One Thing Neither New Anchor Will Change

None of that turnover touches the market. The Farmers' Market at Westfield Oakridge sets up in the mall's own lot off Winfield Boulevard every Sunday and has done so for 17 years, first under the name Blossom Hill Farmers' Market before the branding caught up to the mall around it. When that lot gets claimed for something else, a car show or a carnival, the market doesn't cancel. It moves next to Bowlero, the bowling alley on the same property, and picks back up the following Sunday like nothing happened.

A few blocks east, at 1375 Blossom Hill Road, a second and entirely separate market runs on its own schedule, organized by the Aliotti family, who have run community farmers markets in the area for close to 19 years. The shared name history and the shared street make the two easy to mix up. They aren't the same market, and if you've ever shown up on a Wednesday expecting Sunday's vendor lineup, you already know why the distinction is worth keeping straight.

What's Already Filled In Around the Anchors

The big retail news is still ahead of us, arriving in 2027, but the corridor hasn't been sitting empty waiting for it. Blossom & Bourbon opened at 632 Blossom Hill Road in the spring of 2024 and has held onto a steady crowd for its patio and its cocktail list. Inside the mall, Bistro Tupaz keeps pulling repeat visits with a menu that leans European rather than food-court standard, and Mochinut has become the stop people make between other errands rather than a reason to drive over on its own. Casa Mia is still the answer to "where should we eat tonight" that it has been for years on this stretch.

The restaurant layer built up gradually, one lease at a time, while the big anchors turned over on a slower, far more visible cycle. Both are about to speed up at once, and the market in the middle of it all is the one thing on this road that has never had to.

The Fixed Point on a Road That Keeps Changing

Come 2027, Blossom Hill Road will have a sporting goods store built for a full afternoon, a western-wear store that used to mean a drive to Livermore, and the same market that has opened every single Sunday since long before either company filed a permit. The anchors change. The lease terms change. The market is the fixed point everyone else is building a store around, and 17 years of Sundays is a decent argument for betting it stays that way.

If you're watching what's happening to your own corner of Blossom Valley, whether it's a new lease down the street or what all this construction might mean for your home's value once the dust settles, Taylor Lambert Group tracks these blocks closely. Get your free home valuation and we'll walk you through what's actually changing around you, not just what a listing sheet says.