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San Leandro Tech Campus

August 18, 2015

Technology is the “New Plumbing” in the Information Economy

Plumbing. We take it for granted. We turn the tap—and expect water to come gushing out. Plumbing wasn’t always part of our communities, but once introduced it changed everything about how we build buildings and cities. High speed broadband technology is today’s “new plumbing” and it is dramatically changing how we at Westlake build our […]

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San Leandro

August 6, 2014

San Leandro entices tech startups, entrepreneurs

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 […]

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San Leandro

April 25, 2014

San Leandro opens arms to development

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 […]

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San Leandro Tech Campus

April 8, 2014

Westlake to build San Leandro tech campus of up to 500,000 square feet

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 […]

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