Once crumbling and threatened with demolition, Mount Umunhum radar tower has $2 million restoration
In one of the Bay Area’s more unusual makeovers, a $2 million renovation project at the Mount Umunhum radar tower, an 85-foot-tall landmark in the hills south of San Jose, is complete.
Its owner, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, a government agency based in Los Altos, planned to demolish the radar tower a decade ago as part of opening the summit of the once off-limits peak to the public. For many, the building is a familiar landmark seen by passengers on flights into San Jose, or from highways and neighborhoods when residents gaze south toward the hills.
“The airmen there realized that we were one of the first lines of defense,” said Dr. Mike Cook, a former Air Force captain who worked as the dental officer at the base from 1976 to 1979. Basim Jaber, a San Jose historian who has closely chronicled the history of Almaden Air Force Station, said he would one day like to see a small museum or education center built on the ground floor of the radar tower.
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