San Mateo residents packed into a City Council meeting on Monday to hear elected officials publicly discuss the Hillsdale Shopping Center redevelopment project for the first time.

As part of the project, the current mall south of 31st Avenue will be demolished and replaced with a mix of office, retail and multiunit developments, totaling over 4 million square feet. Several eight- to 10-story commercial buildings are proposed along El Camino Real, with roughly 1,400 housing units proposed, though, it could increase to 1,670.

Bohannon Properties, owner and developer of the site, submitted the formal application earlier this month. The redevelopment could take more than a decade to build, with the goal of completing it around 2040.

Neighboring residents have expressed mixed feelings at the

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