Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/7
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2008
- Three people are fatally shot at the office of SiPort, a start-up company in Silicon Valley
- The Hayward-based Mervyn's department store chain is liquidated (headquarters pictured)
- The Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival premieres at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco
- A fire on Angel Island (pictured) scorches a third of the island
- One Rincon Hill South Tower in San Francisco is completed
- The 555 Mission Street office tower in San Francisco is completed
- The 88, a residential skyscraper in San Jose, is completed
- Tesla Motors introduces the Tesla Roadster, the first fully electric sports car
- Vintner Robert Mondavi dies in Yountville