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City Council Approves Downtown San Leandro Tech Campus

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12 years ago

April 14, 2014

San Leandro City Council this week unanimously approved the planning entitlements and development agreement for a, multi-phased, high-density Downtown Technology Campus.

This project represents the first major office development under the city’s Downtown Transit-Oriented Development Strategy, and is the first major technology-oriented project downtown.

Once completed, the new campus will consist of three six-story office buildings totaling 340,000 to 500,000 square feet.

“A new, Class A commercial district designed for tech firms and other companies at the forefront of today’s innovation economy will soon exist in the center of the San Francisco Bay Area,” said Mayor Stephen Cassidy.

Once completed, full build-out of the project will bring in $200 million of private investment to San Leandro. Phase 1 alone is estimated to cost $50 million.

< p>< p>In addition about 2,000 construction jobs will be created from all three phases of development, with 1,800 employees occupying the finished buildings.

Phase 1, which will consist of a six-story 132,000-square-foot office building, is expected to begin construction in the fall and completed in Spring 2016.

OSIsoft, the San Leandro- based, international software company is slated to be the primary tenant in this initial phase of the project. To meet its continuing growth, OSIsoft recently expanded into offices nearby in Creekside Plaza, the City’s first Class A office space.

“We truly believe in San Leandro and look forward to consolidating our two existing buildings into one that will be state-of-the art, Class A office space where we can execute our office space design ideas and physically reintegrate sales and engineering,” said Patrick Kennedy, CEO of OSIsoft.

Amenities of the development will include a paseo connecting Alvarado Street directly to the nearby BART Station, on-site public art, a new multi-story parking structure, and a landscaped pedestrian and bicycle pathway on Martinez Street, which also represents the first phase of the regional East Bay Green Way.

Each building will be sustainably designed to LEED Gold standards.

“This has truly been a public-private partnership in the best sense of the word as the City and Westlake have worked closely together in difficult economic times and through unforeseen circumstances, said Sunny Tong, managing partner of Westlake.

For more information about this project, contact Tom Liao, Deputy Community Development Director, at (510) 577-6003 or tliao@sanleandro.org.

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The printed Weekly Edition of the Oakland Post: Week of July 1 – 7, 2026

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Inaugural Juneteenth Awards Ceremony Celebrates the Fillmore’s Black History, Leadership and Resilience

Addressing more than 100 Black and Asian attendees, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stated “San Francisco is reliant on the Black community, and we must invest in this community.”

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June 26, 2026

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District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown, Pastor Emeritus of Third Baptist Church, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie. Photo by Linda Parker Pennington.

By Linda Parker Pennington

The Fillmore Community Ambassadors held its first annual Juneteenth Wesley Johnson White Horse Awards ceremony on June 19 inside the newly reopened Fillmore Heritage Center.

The event featured awards for former San Francisco mayors London Breed and Willie Brown, along with Third Baptist Church Pastor Emeritus, Rev. Dr. Amos Brown.

The Koret Heritage lobby at the newly reopened center at 1330 Fillmore St. held a standing-room-only, culturally diverse and multi-generational audience while the art gallery featured photos of Fillmore community members in action, red Japanese lanterns, art and calligraphy, and Chinese artwork, giving the space a multicultural feel.

Addressing more than 100 Black and Asian attendees, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie stated “San Francisco is reliant on the Black community, and we must invest in this community.”

District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood acknowledged that “the Fillmore community has had a difficult history. Thanks to Rev. Amos Brown’s continuous focus on accountability and resistance, you hold us accountable and continue to inspire us.”

Mahmoud is referring to the Fillmore’s Japanese residents who were forced from their homes and sent to concentration camps during World War II. Black people occupied those homes until the return of their Japanese neighbors and then gave them back, while homes that had been unoccupied were lost. The presence of the Asian community on Juneteenth is a testament to that shared history.

In receiving his honor, Amos Brown elicited a powerful spontaneous call-and-response, where members of San Francisco’s many Black churches proudly shouted out the names: “Bethel AME! Providence Baptist! Jones Memorial! Glide!”

Awards program Master of Ceremonies Shawn Richards of Brothers Against Guns warmly introduced Breed, highlighting her many accomplishments, particularly on “March 16, 2020, when she became the first mayor to shut down a major U.S. city due to COVID-19, saving thousands of lives.”

The audience was captivated by Breed’s emotional speech touching on past traumas, present conditions, and future hopes for the neighborhood where she grew up.

She recalled another trauma of the neighborhood during the City’s redevelopment era in the 1960s, where Black residents were forced to move with a promise of being able to return that was largely unfulfilled.

“We remember when this land was just a field because they bulldozed hundreds of Victorian homes that Black people owned. They built the Fillmore Center, where most Black people can’t afford to live or start their own business. But we are still here.”