Nob Hill's Last Thanksgiving on Los Gatos Boulevard Is Whole Foods' First Across the Street

At Los Gatos Boulevard and Blossom Hill Road, four grocers sit within a short drive of each other this November. A fifth address is an empty storefront, already leased. Since April 15, the new Whole Foods Market at 15650 Los Gatos Blvd. has been open across Los Gatos Almaden Road from Nob Hill Foods. Nob Hill has been at its corner for nearly 56 years and has said it will leave when its lease runs out in 2027.

So Thanksgiving week 2026 is the first and only holiday season with both stores facing each other across the road. It also starts a rotation that runs well into next year. One anchor has already moved. Another leaves in June. A San Francisco grocer arrives in the box Whole Foods left behind. This is how the corridor looks for your holiday shopping now, and how it will look by next November.

The map as it stands in November

Five addresses on and just off the Boulevard carry most of the area's grocery trips. In order, with each store's regular listed hours:

Lunardi's lists its coffee shop on the same 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. schedule as the market. Near downtown, the Safeway at 470 N. Santa Cruz Ave. is listed as open 24 hours and offers pickup and delivery. That makes it the one store on this list with no closing time.

What moved in April

The new Whole Foods covers 43,130 square feet, which is more than twice the roughly 18,000-square-foot space it left at Cornerstone. According to the company's opening announcement, the extra room went to expanded seating, a coffee-and-juice bar, and a prepared-foods lineup with hot and salad bars, pizza, made-to-order sandwiches and sushi. The store also has a larger dedicated parking lot, and the release lists more than 2,000 local California products.

That size changes the week before a holiday. A store with hot bars, seating and sushi can cover the weeknight dinner during the days you're shopping for the big one. It also stays open until 10 p.m., two hours past Lunardi's.

What leaves in June

Four months after Whole Foods opened across the road, Nob Hill's owner, Raley's, confirmed it would not renew the lease at the Los Gatos Boulevard and Blossom Hill Road site. The Los Gatan reported that a Raley's spokesperson tied the decision to a review of the store's performance and current economic conditions. A later SiliconValley.com report put the closing of the store at 15710 Los Gatos Blvd. as effective June 2027.

The Los Gatos store is part of a wider pullback. The same report lists a Nob Hill closure at 1250 Grant Road in Mountain View and Raley's closures in Antioch and Brentwood. In a statement to that outlet, Raley's said, "Thoughtful stewardship sometimes means opening stores, and sometimes it means making difficult decisions to close them," and added that its focus is "on supporting our team members, customers, and communities throughout the transition."

For holiday planning, the takeaway is simple. Nob Hill is still at its corner this Thanksgiving and through the December holidays. It is scheduled to be gone before the next round.

The box Whole Foods left is already in use

Cornerstone Shopping Center, at 15980 Los Gatos Blvd., is one block from the Nob Hill site. Whole Foods and Rite Aid both left the center. Its management company, Los Gatos-based Cilker, has filled the space with two new tenants. Cilker Vice President Mary Egan told the Los Gatan that the new businesses represent "a strategic repositioning of the property."

The first is already open. Club Studio, a fitness club that pairs boutique classes with wellness services, arrived in early September. According to its October press release, a community grand-opening celebration is set for Saturday, November 14.

The second is the grocer. Gus's Community Market has signed for the roughly 18,000-square-foot former Whole Foods space. It is expected to open in spring 2027, along with its in-house café partner. It will be the family-owned company's first South Bay store. Gus's started as Haight Street Market in San Francisco in 1981 and now runs five stores there, on Noriega, Haight, Harrison and Channel streets, plus Canyon Market. Brothers Dimitri and Bobby Vardakastanis run it.

Whole Foods moved in April 2026. Gus's is expected in the vacated space in spring 2027, and Nob Hill's closing is set for June 2027. That is three changes at the intersection over about fourteen months.

Thanksgiving week 2026, store by store

Thanksgiving falls on Thursday, November 26. With every store open in the meantime, the week before can follow this order:

1. Sunday, November 22, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Start with produce at the Los Gatos Certified Farmers' Market. It runs every Sunday, year-round, at Town Park Plaza on Main Street and N. Santa Cruz Avenue. The Santa Clara County farmers' market schedule lists the address as 15 Montebello Way.
2. Early weekday mornings: Lunardi's opens at 7 a.m., the earliest of the Boulevard stores, and its coffee shop keeps the same hours.
3. Midweek pantry run: Trader Joe's opens at 9 a.m. and closes at 9 p.m.
4. The late run: Whole Foods is open until 10 p.m. and has seating and hot bars for dinner on a busy prep night.
5. The forgotten ingredient, at any hour: Safeway on N. Santa Cruz Avenue is listed as open 24 hours.

Nob Hill fits anywhere in that week, across the road from Whole Foods, at the corner it has held since the early 1970s. Stores often change their hours around a holiday, so check the week-of schedule for the stores you plan to visit.

Next November's map

If the announced dates hold, the corridor will look different by Thanksgiving 2027. Whole Foods will still be at 15650 Los Gatos Blvd. Gus's will be at Cornerstone, with a café, next to Club Studio. Nob Hill's long-held corner at 15710 Los Gatos Blvd. will have closed after its June 2027 date. Trader Joe's, Lunardi's in Kings Court, Safeway downtown and the Sunday market stay where they are.

Cilker's CEO, Keyston Smith, calls this area "the Uptown Los Gatos community." In a little more than a year, Cornerstone will have gone from a center losing two longtime tenants to one with a new gym and a new grocer, and its neighborhood will have swapped one supermarket for another a block away.

If your home is near Los Gatos Boulevard and you want to know how the changes at Cornerstone and the Blossom Hill corner fit into its value as 2027 approaches, Kelly Dippel is glad to go over it with you. Request a complimentary home valuation, and we'll walk through what's changing on your stretch of the Boulevard and what it means for your plans.