Sand Hill Road
Proper noun
Meaning
A neighborhood of Palo Alto, California, known for its concentration of venture capital companies.
Synonyms: Sand Hill, SHR
(metonymically) The Californian venture capital and tech industry.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Founded in 1962 as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the facility is located on 426 acres (1.72 square kilometers) of Stanford University -owned land on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California just west of the University's main campus.
The bottleneck near Santa Cruz Avenue was widened in 2006 and features a convert high faux rock wall at the junction of Sand Hill Road and Santa Cruz Avenue.