SLTC is located in the Oakland Metropolitan Area in the heart of downtown San Leandro. The multiple-building campus will be developed in three phases. Construction on Phase 2 is currently underway and will be ready for occupancy by the summer of 2018.
On the Bart Line
SLTC is located in the center of the Bay Area with multiple transit options including BART, AC Transit BRT and AC Transit buses. Multiple freeways provide easy access to the Oakland Airport, the Port of Oakland and the Bay Area.
With the new BART extension to San Jose, SLTC will be connected to Silicon Valley, the East Bay, San Francisco and the Peninsula cities.
San Leandro, once a highly successful 20th century manufacturing center is now emerging as a 21st century innovation ecosystem, poised to become a hub for advanced manufacturing, medical research and new and green tech industries.
Lit San Leandro
In today’s information economy, success is measured by the speed in which ideas and information can be transferred—across the country and around the world. San Leandro’s fiber optic loop, Lit San Leandro, offers speeds that are thousands of times faster than the average U.S. Internet connection. San Leandro's fiber optic network–ultra-thin glass filament cables that allow data to travel at the speed of light–provides unsurpassed data/internet speeds and capacities. Businesses relocating to SLTC will have access to "dark fiber" to satisfy their information technology requirements. Lit San Leandro is a public-private partnership between the City of San Leandro and OSIsoft founder Dr. J. Patrick Kennedy.
Manufacturing in San Leandro
“San Leandro just happened to have everything we were looking for.” – Aaron Selverston, Founder & CEO, Owlized
San Leandro, once a 20th century manufacturing powerhouse, is undergoing a remarkable transformation to at 21st century center of innovation and technology. Well-located, transit-rich industrial and office workplace districts are now ripe for reinvestment. The high-speed fiber optic network has become the springboard for new and growing technology businesses and a thriving maker community. The city is home to GATE510, a 750,000-square-foot innovation hub in a former Plymouth auto factory. Other recent developments include the Zero Net Energy Center, an educational facility that works with electricians to reach zero-net-energy and 21st Amendment, a microbrewery that modernized and repurposed a 200,000 square foot former cereal plant. Ghirardelli Chocolate has been headquartered in San Leandro since the early 1960s.
