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SAN LEANDRO — This baby boondocks amid Oakland and Hayward is advancing out of the abatement like few places around, alluring tech startups, artists and brewers to a onetime acceptable automated hub.
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“San Leandro is all-embracing change for the aboriginal time in decades,” said Deborah Acosta, the city’s aboriginal addition officer.
The bang is the aftereffect of a blessed aggregation of activity and assets — accessible long-vacant or underused accomplishment sites; a agent who financed a cilia optic bend in city-owned aqueduct and the burghal jumping into a public-private affiliation with him, the aboriginal of its affectionate in the Bay Area; and application broadband to allurement tech firms.
San Leandro additionally has been aggressively business its lower rents, adjacency to the Oakland airport and port, and alertness to assignment with businesses.
“We absolutely do put an accent on cutting the allowing action and absolution businesses know, ‘Hey, we’re absolutely aflame you’re here,'” said Jeff Kay, San Leandro’s business development manager. For added than a year, the burghal has waived business authorization fees for new companies.
Espen Sivertsen confused his 3-D desktop printer accomplishment abutting from San Francisco afterwards attractive at added than 50 sites.
“We were 18 bodies in 350 aboveboard anxiety of appointment amplitude in San Francisco. It was accessible we bare to move,” he said. His Type A Machines chose The Gate, 350,000 aboveboard anxiety of assignment spaces on the additional attic of a aloft car factory.
The Gate has been bushing with artists, entrepreneurs and tech startups back its owners reinvented it as a accord centermost this year. Before, it had few tenants, best of them on the arena floor’s West Gate San Leandro with a Home Depot, Sports Authority and added stores.
Now, artists and tech dreamers busily accompany their projects on the additional attic aloft absent shoppers. Sivertsen confused in, allurement 10 added 3-D desktop printer firms to accompany him. Best assignment abreast anniversary added in a ample amplitude with aerial ceilings and accustomed light.
“This is the world’s bigger array of 3-D desktop printer companies. It’s a affiliation of noncompeting startups; we’re architecture a 3-D ecosystem,” he said.
Other contempo ample developments in the burghal accommodate a Kaiser hospital congenital on the armpit of aloft grocery administration center, a planned burghal tech campus breadth a cannery already stood, about-face of a barge backyard into a cold-storage warehouse, a brewery demography over a abandoned atom plant, and the Westlake/OSIsoft Technology Complex — three six-story, 300,000-square-foot tech appointment barrio breadth a Del Monte cannery closed.
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“I’d like to anticipate we’re advanced of the curve,” Kay said, as abounding cities attempt with remaking 20th aeon automated districts.
Not alone does The Gate accept cilia optic service, its leases alpha at 90 cents to $1.25 a aboveboard foot, compared with $25 and up in San Francisco.
One of the businesses abutting Sivertsen is Mind-2-Matter, which uses 3-D desktop printers to accomplish aggregate from announcement swag to casts for jewelry.
Making the move was not an accessible best for co-founder Rod Wagner. “It’s an hour drive if I’m lucky; it can be up to 2½ hours,” the Cotati citizen said.
But he begin it account his while to be abutting to the added 3-D printers. He formed for Atari in the aboriginal canicule of Silicon Valley and sees the aforementioned abeyant for a bound advanced at The Gate.
“You can body on anniversary other’s ideas; adroitness is encouraged. It’s the aforementioned affair as back bodies were affective out of the garages in Silicon Valley,” he said.
Collaboration and adaptability is The Gate’s appeal, said Cheryl Edison, its development manager.
“Companies today in the new abridgement are all about accord and sharing,” Acosta said. “Fiber optic is important, but what’s added important is community.”
In a 10,000-square-foot section, The Hive art aggregate is creating ample sculptures for Nevada’s Burning Man festival.
When one of its projects adjourned for abridgement of a custom-built piece, Mind-2-Matter’s Justin Kelly 3-D printed the allotment at a atom of the amount and time of a acceptable fabricator.
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Gate tenants accumulate for cafeteria or a beer at Drake’s, bottomward the access from the additional floor. Such places to eat and alcohol are amenities that allure new-economy businesses, Kay said.
South of The Gate, 21st Amendment Brewery is converting a bankrupt Kellogg’s branch into one of the region’s bigger breweries.
“Finding a ample architecture like Kellogg’s was ideal,” said brewery co-founder Nico Freccia.
Almost a division of the city’s acreage is benumbed industrial. In the mid-20th century, San Leandro had West Coast plants for Chevrolet, Chrysler and General Foods. Added than 20,000 bodies formed in accomplishment there.
In the 1970s, those jobs began affective adopted and to lower-cost states. The recession hit the burghal hard, but it began advancing for an upturn, Acosta said.
OSIsoft CEO Patrick Kennedy offered a big addition in 2010 with his public-private cilia optic activity offer. “The burghal basically said, ‘Heck, yeah, we’ll do this,'” Acosta said.
Kennedy’s all-embracing software aggregation bare added Internet bandwidth, so he approved to run cilia optic through 11 afar of underground burghal conduits.
“Within a few months, we had a licensing agreement,” Kay said. The burghal has a admission to extend cilia optic 8 added miles.
Cities such as Palo Alto and Sunnyvale accept accessible cilia optic, but “San Leandro’s public/private adjustment is, as far as I know, unique,” he said.
The city’s cilia optic success in adorable startups has led to San Leandro assembly actuality arrive to allege at civic conferences. The burghal has article to teach, a development adviser said.
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“San Leandro is establishing itself as a city-scale lab for innovation. Alone months ago, (it) was a almost alien Bay Breadth city,” said Greg Delaune, CEO of UIX Global.
Kennedy’s company, Lit San Leandro, is alive with added East Bay cities on agnate ventures.
Everyone should accept cilia eyes to advance the region’s aggressive edge, Acosta said.
As San Leandro’s abandoned sites fill, it is attractive at its automated area, Kay said.
“We appetite to acculturate (it), accompany in bigger lighting, bike lanes, accessible art, added amenities,” he said. “We appetite to be able to allure new manufacturing.
“We’re not activity to accept 500 bodies with cafeteria pails activity to a Chrysler plant. It’s activity to attending a lot altered from … 50, 70 years ago.”
Contact Rebecca Parr at 510-293-2473.
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San Leandro boomsSome of the city’s reinventions of accomplishment and automated sites:
The Gate: The additional attic of a aloft Chrysler auto bulb is actuality adapted into an addition centermost for startups, artists and entrepreneurs.21st Amendment Brewery: A onetime Kellogg’s atom bulb will become a 95,000-square-foot brewery.Kaiser Permanente Medical Center: A hospital and medical offices opened this year on the armpit of a ancient grocery administration center.Downtown tech campus: The Westlake/OSIsoft Technology Complex will accept three six-story, 300,000-square-foot tech appointment barrio breadth a Del Monte cannery bankrupt decades ago.Preferred Freezer: A 247,000-square-foot algid accumulator barn now occupies the ancient Hudson Barge Co. site.
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