When it was decided that the Albert Schultz Jewish Community Center of Palo Alto, Calif., would be evicted its from headquarters building of 30 years, the search began for a new home. At the same time, the Jewish Home of San Francisco was looking to extend its reach into Silicon Valley to provide more independent and assisted living senior housing. The partnership embarked on the most ambitious development plan Palo in Alto in more than 20 years . to take an underutilized and polluted urban site and turn it into a small city.