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• Competitive real estate costs <br /> • Home tu numerous successful business headquarters <br /> • Dynamic Marketing Communications: Branding, PR, Web, <br /> • Keiser Medical Center locating in city <br /> Challenges: <br /> • Existing Cunnnnercie| & Industrial building stuck is older than many surrounding cities <br /> especially southern A|ennede County and geared to e previous manufacturing era. <br /> • Lack ufC|ess-4office space (although planned projects will add to this inventory) <br /> • Lack uf restaurant options <br /> Fostering Innovation and the High Tech Economy <br /> The East Bey Economic Development Council projects the highest growth in PSTS industries <br /> during the next five years. San Leandro is strategically preparing itself to eccunnnnudete these <br /> growth industries. Strategic projects, such as the approximately 350,000 square foot Tech <br /> Campus next to BART, mixed-use shoreline development, Lit San Leandro, reinvention of the <br /> industrial areas /Next Generation Workplace District Study) and Keiser all point to attracting <br /> and fostering PSTS businesses in the City. <br /> San Leendru's well established industrial areas feature large warehouse and manufacturing <br /> buildings that may be converted to foster innovative, high tech businesses. For example, the <br /> second floor of Westgate Center could be converted into "Maker Spaces," scale up business <br /> incubators, hacker spaces with machinery, offices, and labs. <br /> ity of San Leandro I Economic Development Strategy and Work Plan I December 2013 <br />