Building 7 was the largest of Santana Row’s nine original buildings, covering six acres along South Winchester Boulevard. Nicknamed the “wedding cake”, it had four floors of stores and luxury apartments above an underground garage. When it burned it held 36 shops in various stages of construction and 242 apartments and townhouses, with a health club, a bocce court and a reflecting pond.
Questions people ask
Why was it called the wedding cake?
The Chronicle reported the nickname for the tiered building of shops and apartments; it did not say who coined it.