https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/09/20/stanford-buy-big-bay-area-palo-alto-apartment-home-real-estate/ > PALO ALTO — Stanford University has gained ownership of a big apartment complex in Palo Alto that’s next to the college through a byzantine array of transactions, public records indicate. > Oak Creek Apartments located at 1600 Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto is the residential complex that’s at the center of a web of intricate real estate endeavors that Stanford wove this month.