With the changes planned to the Jurian building, what will happen to the current tenent Agave Mexican Bistro?

Castro is already RUINED by closing down vehicular traffic in from central expressway. Castro is a ghost town. The only stores barely doing OK are all near the train station. The back-half of Castro street is a barren desert of closed bankrupted stores. Go visit Castro on a weekday or weekend, both day and night. It is a ghost town. By closing down vehicle traffic from central expressway, you force a lot of northern MV visitors through narrow residential streets to get in, which people won’t do and instead have been going to Sunnyvale, Los Altos, or Palo Alto downtowns (towns which all opened up their downtown streets again). The MV leadership concerning Castro street traffic/developments has been terrible and they all need to be replaced out. Bring BACK vehicular traffic from central expressway into Castro, and cancel the horrible decision to turn this into a barren cement park !! Either that or don’t whine when the only solution to keep Castro street viable is create a lot of new dense high-rise developments to force in high volumes of people.

Per the article:
“ two-thirds of [Castro businesses] are not bringing in equal or greater revenue to what they were before COVID”

This was entirely predictable and the terrible decision to close down central expressway traffic into Castro needs to be repealed/reversed.

Since when is *office space* the thing anyone needs in Mountain View? If they were planning on building housing, I could maybe see an argument for this, but this feels completely unnecessary and is definitely not worth losing the delightful and iconic patio at Agave. Sounds like their whole motivation is to build something without adding parking, rather than actually serving a need. I hope this plan is rejected as the obvious boondoggle it is.

Closing down streets, adding speed bumps and stop signs everywhere, giving roads a "diet" - this town is getting more like Palo Alto every day. Why can't we have leaders who care about keeping Mountain View Mountain View? By the way, I know it's not sexy, but how about fixing some roads once in a while instead of spending all your time thinking up expressions like "give the road a diet"? Some of them are truly awful.

I would appreciate it too if builders were not allowed to just close down sections of Middlefield for their own convenience every day. They have plenty of space to work. They don't need to shut down the road, but the stupid city just lets them do it. For the convenience of a few builders an entire city of drivers have to suffer. Makes so little sense.

Maybe adding offices downtown will drive customers to local businesses? And maybe if pedestrianizing Castro were the problem, the pedestrianized blocks would be suffering more, not less?