Photo by RobRoy 
Davis Commons is the small shopping center on the corner of 1st St. and Richards Blvd. at E St. It was completed in 1997, amid protest that the arrival of Davis' first corporate chain bookstore would drive out smaller independent booksellers. (several did actually close shortly thereafter, including The Next Chapter, Coffee & Classics, and Gayle's Books). Davis Commons was featured on the ABC Nightly News as "an example of appropriate development for the 21st Century." (In all fairness, though, Davis Commons is preferable to the standard shoebox-style strip mall, like Fifth Street Plaza.)
The tract of land that is now Davis Commons was once a Native American village, which was another reason for controversy around the building of the center. Interestingly, the burial ground for the village was also built over; it's called the Mondavi Center.
Davis Commons was developed by two local firms Pyramid Construction and Cunningham Engineering Corporation.
It consists of the following stores and restaurants:
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Cingular Wireless formerly AT&T WirelessAT&T Wireless formerly Cingular WirelessVerizon Wireless sub-agent Store
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Habit Burger which replaced DeVon's Jewelers
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Mikuni, a sushi/Japanese restaurant chain
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The Gap
The Arboretum Terrace on the east side of the complex has some great outside seating. At the back of the parking lot you can access the arboretum bikeways.
The walkway between Fuzio and Ben & Jerry's
Sculpture on the east end of the lawn
Does anyone have a picture of the sculpture of a man in a box that used to be in at the end of the pictured walkway?
I remember it being a woman? Of course, that was a long time ago.
I'm pretty sure it was a nude man —StevenDaubert
