TREASURE ISLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Although women still make up a small number of tech workers, a new tech campus going up in San Leandro is going to have a prominent woman at the front. A 55-foot steel sculpture of a woman that lit up Burning Man four years ago is being re-assembled by the […]
A popular piece of local art is on the move, but don’t worry, it’s not going too far. The 55-foot steel sculpture “Truth is Beauty” is moving to the San Leandro Tech Campus from Treasure Island. The sculpture, which weighs 13,000 pounds, has 2,500 individual LED lights. Truth is Beauty first made its full appearance […]
Office Lease, East Bay Finalist: OSIsoft In the 1 970s, developer Westlake Urban bought an old cannery plant next to the San Leandro BART station. The building sat vacant for decades. Housing was planned on the site, but three years ago, office development gained favor. San Leandro’s central location in the East Bay, with access […]
Software firm OSIsoft has closed a 10-year, 105,000-square-foot lease deal at the San Leandro Tech Campus, kickstarting construction on the 7.5-acre development and the city’s broader effort to become an East Bay technology hub. The Business Times first reported the lease in April. Video: San Leandro Tech Campus plans Construction on the first phase of the 500,000-square-foot […]
SAN LEANDRO — This small town between Oakland and Hayward is coming out of the downturn like few places around, attracting tech startups, artists and brewers to a onetime traditional industrial hub. “San Leandro is embracing change for the first time in decades,” said Deborah Acosta, the city’s first innovation officer. The boom is the […]
San Leandro could be on the verge of a dramatic redevelopment. The city was long a sleepy, blue-collar manufacturing center. It’s now buzzing with a fresh technology focus. Word is spreading about a sturdy fiber-optic backbone running through the town and backers are making a marketing push that’s savvy about tech startups, especially in a […]
San Francisco Business Times, by Bianca Torres First came a fiber optic loop for high-speed Internet, next comes a new home for tech companies in San Leandro. Westlake Development Partners LLC recently got approval for a proposed office campus of up to 500,000 square feet on a 7.3-acre site in downtown San Leandro adjacent to […]