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<br /> <br />Continuing to build on the fiber optic network, the City is exploring development of a city-wide, <br />distributed renewable energy micro grid project through a public-private partnership designed to <br />meet Climate Action Plan goals adopted in 2009. The Connected Renewal Energy Micro Grid <br />will reduce greenhouse gas production and energy costs, create local jobs, and increase real <br />estate values and energy security. <br /> <br />Make it in America: Manufacturing Resurgence <br />San Leandro boasts a strategic Bay Area location, flexible <br />industrial building stock, a highly-skilled workforce, <br />competitive lease and purchase rates and a high-speed fiber <br />optic network that traverses the industrial area. <br /> <br /> San Leandro’s industrial area encompasses 25% of its <br />land area, providing two-thirds of its jobs. <br /> <br /> Once a manufacturing powerhouse, the following <br />buildings have been transformed: <br /> Former Chrysler Dodge Auto Plant: now The Gate, home to makers and artists <br /> Former Kellogg’s Plant: transitioned from making Pop Tarts to 21st Amendment craft beer <br /> Former Del Monte Cannery: now San Leandro Tech Campus, home to “Truth is Beauty” <br /> Former Hudson Lumber Pencil Factory: now Preferred Freezer, home to massive “Pulse of <br /> Nature” public mural <br />Funding Request <br />Project <br />Funding Requested <br />Smart San Leandro: Continue to Build Fiber Optic Infrastructure: <br />Expand existing free downtown Wi-Fi City-wide to be built on access points along Lit <br />San Leandro’s 19+ mile fiber optic network. <br />$5 million <br />Smart San Leandro: Build Distributed Renewable Energy Micro Grid: <br />Capital start-up costs to include City-owned assets in renewable energy micro grid <br />PPP project. <br />$10 million <br />Humanize the Industrial District: Large Scale Industrial Art and Mural Projects: <br />Seed funding to commission large scale industrial art and mural projects, linking local <br />artists with industrial businesses to create a sense of place and engage people at street <br />level. <br />$1 million <br />360’ x 60’ “Pulse of Nature” mural adjacent to BART at 247k sf Preferred Freezer facility <br />Congressmembers Barbara Lee & Steny Hoyer <br />visit Type A Machines: “Make it in America”