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<br /> <br />Commercial (retail, service and office) uses in San Leandro comprise 546 acres, or about 8 <br />percent of the city. Although Downtown is the city’s historic retail center, the largest retail uses <br />in the city are the community and regional shopping centers such as Bayfair Center and <br />Westgate. Much of the city’s retail acreage is contained in commercial strips along East 14th <br />Street, Washington Avenue, MacArthur Boulevard and Marina Boulevard. The city also contains <br />a number of small neighborhood-oriented shopping centers. About 95 acres of the city’s <br />commercial land consists of offices. The largest concentrations are located around the <br />Downtown BART Station, along East 14th Street, and just east of Downtown. Additionally, at the <br />time this Plan was adopted, a 63-acre site which formerly housed the Albertsons Distribution <br />Facility had been put on the market for development as a possible retail or commercial center. <br />San Leandro contains about 1,360 acres of industrial uses. Industrial areas are generally <br />located in the west and northwest parts of the city, and in the central area just east of I-880 and <br />south of Marina Boulevard. Historically, industry in San Leandro followed the three north-south <br />railroad lines crossing the city. The shift to trucking and decline of heavy manufacturing has <br />changes this pattern. San Leandro’s industrial areas now include uses as diverse as wrecking <br />yards and “dot coms.” Much of the city’s industrial area consists of landscaped office parks and <br />distribution facilities. Other areas continue to fit a more traditional image of manufacturing. <br />The city also contains 426 acres of public and institutional uses and 300 acres of transportation, <br />communication and utilities land. Public and institutional uses include schools, hospitals, <br />libraries, community centers, municipal buildings, and other civic uses. These uses tend to be <br />scattered around the city within neighborhoods and business districts. The transportation, <br />communication and utilities land consists mostly of railroad rights-of-way. This land also <br />includes the BART stations, PG&E rights-of-way, the Davis Street Transfer Station, and <br />wastewater treatment facilities. <br />Open space and parks comprise almost 1,000 acres in San Leandro. City parks such as Marina <br />Park and Washington Manor Park represent about 120 acres of this total. Public golf courses <br />and Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline make up another 400 acres. The remainder of the land – <br />about 450 acres – consists mostly of wetlands in the southwestern part of the city.