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Shoreline West, Mountain View is a close-knit neighborhood of people and families that tend to be very familiar with each other. Frequently, you'll see neighbors out on a walk, waving at each other or chatting. It is a comfortable neighborhood to live in that is rather quiet and peaceful. With proximity within blocks of downtown Mountain View, but separated by Shoreline Boulevard, Shoreline West provides distance from the hustle and bustle, but closeness to conveniences. There are over 150 restaurants within blocks and two restaurants, Tommy Thai and Kolbeh, within Shoreline West's boundaries.

An active association of neighbors was reestablished in 2010. Known as "SWAN", the Shoreline West Association of Neighbors gets together annually at a block party where neighbors contribute food and enjoy music, dance, and visiting. 200-300 neighbors usually attend. Occasionally, SWAN does ice cream parties at their very own Mariposa Park, located within Shoreline West on Mariposa Street. Castro School Park is also in the neighborhood. While the focus of the neighborhood association is mostly social, they did come together in 2012 to address traffic safety concerns. Working together with the city, they had a stoplight installed at Escuela Avenue and California Street, as well as three safety crosswalks with flashing lights installed on Shoreline Boulevard to facilitate safer passage to downtown and safer foot traffic across busy streets. Being a residential neighborhood, yet so close to downtown, parking is much easier than in nearby areas.

In the 1900's, Pacific Press was located on Villa Street, and quickly became on of the City's largest employers. With the publishing company came more than 100 Adventist families who settled around Pettis Avenue and Latham Street. This became on of the first large residential subdivisions. (1) While homes tended to be cottage style for a long while, many are now being expanded upon or rebuilt into larger, two-story homes in the recent years. The median home price has risen rapidly, from $857,000 in 2011, to $1,512,000 in 2015. This has much to do with the expansion of technology industries nearby. In April 2011, Google purchased the historic property. "The space is necessary because '2011 will be our biggest hiring year in company history,' said Dan Hoffman, real estate director for Google, in a statement." (2)

In approximately 2003, Shoreline West was redistricted from a lower performing elementary school (Castro School) to a much higher performing elementary school (Bubb School). Since the change, more than double the amount of homes have changed hands than in the prior 13 years.

(1) http://www.mountainview.gov/about/history.asp
(2) http://www.mv-voice.com/news/2011/05/26/google-buys-former-home-of-the-pacific-press