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14 <br /> <br />2.3.3. Kaiser’s imminent opening offers a “marketing moment.” <br />This one billion-dollar investment changes the literal "image of the city" - the western skyline from I-880 <br />- and creates a new reason for people to set foot in the district. Kaiser Permanente hospitals tend to be <br />self-contained within their own networks of laboratories and ancillary goods and services suppliers, <br />located either on-site or outside the city. As such, there may not be strong potential for a substantial <br />influx of medical-related businesses into the district that are economically anchored by the Kaiser <br />Hospital. However, a sprinkling of small independent medical businesses is already moving into <br />properties adjacent to the new facility. The new hospital's 2,300+ employees are slated to begin arriving <br />in spring of 2014, with hundreds of daily patients and their families and visitors to add to the flow later <br />in the year. This will create an influx of never-before-seen visitors to the industrial area west of I-880. <br />The benefits to the district beyond this are not yet clear. <br /> <br /> <br />2.4 Threats From Competing Areas include: <br /> <br />2.4.1. Fremont, Milpitas, and Livermore. <br />These East Bay cities have a larger and more modern stock of manufacturing buildings and are mounting <br />aggressive economic development efforts. Fremont and Milpitas have long been considered the eastern <br />edge of the Silicon Valley and already interact considerably with its high technology business ecosystem. <br />Livermore has built innovation partnerships between its industrial area firms and the Lawrence <br />Livermore National Laboratories under its iHub designation. <br /> <br />2.4.2. The Oakland Army Base, Jingletown, and Alameda. <br />Despite Oakland's real and perceived problems, these areas will be strong competitors, especially for <br />creative urban manufacturing businesses. Their districts may have community touchstones (like <br />Jingletown's Institute of Mosaic Art) and transit proximities (nearer BART stations) that are lacking in San <br />Leandro. The Oakland Army Base site is very close to the strong Emeryville biotech market, and could <br />ultimately develop with large biotech users there that draw in other office and high value-added <br />companies around them. <br /> <br />2.4.3. Hayward. <br />The city is in the process of enabling its own fiber optic loop and may make this service available in 3 to <br />5 years. Hayward has large inventories of industrial land and closer proximity to Silicon Valley, a major <br />market for value-added manufacturing companies like Scandic. <br /> <br />2.4.4. San Francisco. <br />The city is now a center for high-value manufacturing, has many entrepreneurs, boasts innovative <br />manufacturing leadership and organizational support from the SFMade nonprofit organization26 <br />working cooperatively with city government, and firms want to stay there in spite of high costs. New <br /> <br />26 www.sfmade.org