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South-central Sunnyvale between El Camino Real and Fremont Avenue: the city's Community Center and apricot orchard, streets named for artists and composers, the Sunny Arts ranch blocks and Sunset Oaks.
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Every active listing, rental and closed sale in Sunny Arts & Community Center from the MLS, updated automatically, with a map of the neighborhood outline.
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Our sales in Sunny Arts & Community Center
Since 2012 we’ve handled 6 sales inside the Sunny Arts & Community Center outline that we can match to MLS records: 5 homes we listed and 1 where we represented the buyer. The other photos are our closest listings outside it, measured from its edge.
We also represented the buyer at 1274 Rembrandt Drive (Mar 2022).
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the story
How Sunny Arts & Community Center came to be
This guide covers the wedge between El Camino Real and Fremont Avenue, from Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road east to the point where El Camino meets Wolfe Road. Two names share it. Sunny Arts is a city-registered neighborhood association, established in 2005 with about 256 households in the city's registry, on the east side of the Sunnyvale East Channel; its own website spells it SunnyArts. Community Center is the label listing maps use for the blocks around the city's Sunnyvale Community Center on East Remington Drive.
The Community Center campus at 550 E. Remington Drive opened in 1973. Today it holds a performing arts center with the 200-seat Sunnyvale Theatre, a creative arts center with painting and pottery studios, a recreation center, an indoor sports center and a senior center. Its grounds reopened on May 21, 2026, after a renovation that reshaped the ponds, opened about two acres of new open space, and added separate play areas, a game zone, amphitheater-style seating and new walking paths. The heritage valley oak and the veterans memorial plaque stayed.
Next door is the orchard. The city preserved ten acres of Blenheim apricot trees in 1994, and the Historical Society designated it Heritage Orchard Park in 1997 (city maps call it Orchard Heritage Park). An interpretive exhibit on orchard work and fruit canning followed in 2001. In 2008 the Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum opened beside the orchard in a replica of Bay View, the Murphy family ranch house that the city bought in 1951 and that was torn down in 1961 for Central Expressway.
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The streets and the houses
The street signs here read like a museum directory. Artists: Rembrandt, Picasso, Van Dyck, Renoir, Michelangelo, Robbia, Rousseau, Sargent, Manet, Matisse, Klee, Goya, Gainsborough, Hogarth, Lautrec and Cezanne. Composers: Chopin, Schubert, Verdi, Brahms, Mozart, Puccini, Romberg, Offenbach, Debussy, Ives and MacDowell. Up by El Camino and Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road the theme drifts to the sky, with Azure Street, Cirrus Avenue and Cumulus Avenue. We couldn't find a written history of who picked the names.
Sunny Arts itself is a pocket of single-story ranch houses east of the channel, on Rembrandt, Chopin, Schubert, Verdi, Van Dyck, Renoir, Robbia, Rousseau and Sargent. Two recent listing records there, on Robbia and Sargent drives, show houses built in 1968 with about 1,500 to 1,700 square feet on 6,000-square-foot lots. The city zones these blocks R-0 single-family.
West of the channel the mix changes. Sunset Oaks, a 1970s townhome planned development with its own guide, sits between Crescent Avenue and Fremont Avenue on the west side of Picasso Drive. Apartment complexes line East Remington Drive and the blocks near Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road, including Remington Grove, Apricot Pit, Lincoln Glen, Remington Place, Twin Pines Manor, Bali Hai and Oakwood. The Azure, Cirrus and Cumulus blocks carry R-2 planned-development zoning. El Camino Real's frontage falls in the city's El Camino Real Specific Plan, with a supermarket-anchored center near Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road and car dealerships and a hotel farther east.
streets in sunny arts & community center
- E. Remington Drive
- Crescent Avenue
- Rembrandt Drive
- Picasso Drive
- Van Dyck Drive
- Van Dyck Court
- Renoir Court
- Robbia Drive
- Robbia Court
- Rousseau Drive
- Sargent Drive
- Chopin Drive
- Schubert Drive
- Verdi Drive
- Michelangelo Drive
- Manet Drive
- Matisse Court
- Mozart Court
- Puccini Drive
- Romberg Drive
- Gainsborough Drive
- Klee Court
- Offenbach Place
- Goya Drive
- Cezanne Drive
- Brahms Way
- Azure Street
- Cirrus Avenue
- Cumulus Avenue
parks and places
Parks, shops and landmarks near Sunny Arts & Community Center
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Sunnyvale Community Center
550 E. Remington Drive, opened in 1973: the 200-seat Sunnyvale Theatre, painting and pottery studios, an indoor sports center with a drop-in gym, a recreation center and a senior center. The renovated grounds reopened in May 2026 with reshaped ponds, separate play areas, picnic areas and walking paths.
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Orchard Heritage Park
Ten acres of Blenheim apricot trees preserved by the city in 1994, beside the Community Center. A barn-like interpretive exhibit (2001) on orchard work and canning is open daily during daylight hours.
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Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum
570 E. Remington Drive, a 2008 replica of the Murphy family's Bay View ranch house. Admission is free; it is open Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 4 p.m.
- shopping
El Camino Real
Groceries and errands line the north edge, including a supermarket near Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road and another near Chopin Drive. Downtown Sunnyvale and Murphy Avenue are about 1.5 miles north (straight-line).
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Panama Park
755 Dartshire Way, 5 acres with reservable fields and a ballfield, about 0.7 mile south of the Community Center across Fremont Avenue (straight-line).
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School districts and getting around
School districts
District lines split this area. The state's district map puts most blocks south of about Remington Drive, including Sunny Arts and Sunset Oaks, in the Cupertino Union School District (K-8), and most blocks north of it in the Sunnyvale School District (K-8); all of it is in the Fremont Union High School District. Listing records on Robbia and Sargent drives show Cupertino Union and Fremont Union. Fremont High School is just across Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road at 575 W. Fremont Ave. Attendance boundaries change, so check the exact address with each district.
Sunnyvale School District guide · Cupertino Union guide · Fremont Union guide · Silicon Valley school districts
Getting around
- VTA Rapid 522 and Route 22 run on El Camino Real along the north edge.
- VTA Rapid 523 stops at Sunnyvale-Saratoga & El Camino and Sunnyvale-Saratoga & Fremont, and Route 55 also runs on Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road; Route 56 runs on Wolfe Road at the east tip.
- Caltrain: Sunnyvale station is about 1.5 miles north of the Community Center and Lawrence station about 1.9 miles northeast (straight-line).
- I-280 is under 2 miles south (approximate), by way of Wolfe Road or Sunnyvale-Saratoga Road, which becomes De Anza Boulevard south of Homestead Road.
- Bikes: the city's Active Transportation Plan map shows a bike-boulevard route on Cezanne Drive, Cumulus Avenue and Azure Street between El Camino and Remington, a route on Crescent Avenue, and an East Channel trail route between El Camino and Fremont; check what is open before you count on the trail.
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Buying or selling in Sunny Arts & Community Center: what we check
Buying here
- Check the school district by exact address. The Cupertino Union and Sunnyvale School District line runs through this area, roughly near Remington Drive, and not along any neighborhood name.
- Sunny Arts houses are 1968 ranches on 6,000-square-foot lots. Ask about roof age, the electrical panel, original plumbing, the sewer lateral and permits for any additions; homes built before 1978 come with a federal lead-based paint disclosure.
- Look up the address on FEMA's flood map. The city's flood-zone layer shows small AO (shallow flooding) areas in the Sunny Arts blocks near Van Dyck Drive and El Camino, and along the East Channel just south of El Camino. Valley Water's East Channel upgrade is in design.
- For townhomes, condos and planned developments, get the HOA documents early: CC&Rs, budget, reserve study, minutes and current dues. Sunset Oaks has its own guide with HOA specifics.
- Near El Camino Real, read the city's El Camino Real Specific Plan to see what could be built across the street, and visit at rush hour to hear the traffic.
Selling here
- Lead with the address-level facts buyers compare here: school district (it changes within the area), lot size and walking distance to the Community Center and orchard.
- For a Sunny Arts ranch, document updates to roof, windows, heating and electrical with permits; 1968 houses get inspected closely.
- If your home is near the East Channel, have its flood-zone status and any insurance history ready.
- For HOA homes, order the resale disclosure package early so buyers can review dues and reserves.
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Sunny Arts & Community Center questions, answered
What is Sunny Arts?
A city-registered neighborhood association, established in 2005 with about 256 households in the city's registry, covering the single-family blocks east of the Sunnyvale East Channel between El Camino Real and Fremont Avenue. Its own website spells it SunnyArts.
Why are the streets named for artists and composers?
We couldn't find a written history of the naming. The theme runs across the whole area, from Rembrandt and Picasso to Chopin, Verdi and MacDowell, with a few cloud names (Azure, Cirrus, Cumulus) near El Camino.
What's at the Sunnyvale Community Center?
At 550 E. Remington Drive: the 200-seat Sunnyvale Theatre, a creative arts center, an indoor sports center, a recreation center and a senior center, with renovated grounds that reopened in May 2026. The apricot orchard and the Heritage Park Museum are next door.
Which school districts serve this area?
It's split. Most blocks south of about Remington Drive, including Sunny Arts and Sunset Oaks, are in Cupertino Union; most blocks north of it are in the Sunnyvale School District. All of it is in Fremont Union for high school. Confirm the exact address with the districts.
Is Sunset Oaks part of this area?
Yes. Sunset Oaks, a 1970s townhome planned development between Crescent and Fremont avenues on the west side of Picasso Drive, is inside this guide's boundary. See our Sunset Oaks guide for its HOA details.
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