Source: https://www.mercurynews.com/, March 27, 2022
By: Hannah Kanik

Soil vapor contaminants found at the Quito Village Shopping Center in Saratoga have delayed the site’s mixed use development project by more than a year, and cost the property owner about $5 million.

Owners Sand Hill Property Company discovered chemicals commonly used in dry cleaning in the soil vapor after they brought in an environmental consultant in 2020, which legally prohibited them from moving forward with development until they had a plan to extract the chemicals. Read more.