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<br />Community Facilities. San Leandro is home to over 50 City facilities, including five fire
<br />stations, the Marina Community Center, the Civic Center, a Senior Community Center, the Casa
<br />Peralta/History Museum, a Public Works Service Center, a Main Library and three outlying
<br />branch libraries, the Marina’s Harbor Master Office, a Water Pollution Control Plant, a Boys and
<br />Girls Club with a pool and locker rooms, Farrelly Pool and the San Leandro Family Aquatics
<br />Center. The City maintains 17 City parks, which total approximately 110 acres. Additionally,
<br />the City is responsible for the day–to–day operation and maintenance of the San Leandro
<br />Marina, the Monarch Bay Golf Club and 315 acres of dedicated shoreline marshlands.
<br />San Leandro Hospital is the City’s full service hospital. The Alameda County Medical
<br />Center’s psychiatric hospital, the John George Psychiatric Pavilion, is located in unincorporated
<br />San Leandro. Fairmont Hospital, located near the City, is an Acute Rehabilitation, Neuro–
<br />Respiratory and HIV care center. Also present within the City are Kindred SF Acute Care
<br />Hospital and All Saints Skilled Nursing Hospital. Kaiser Permanente had been working with the
<br />City for several years to develop a new hospital complex, which project will generate 3,000 new
<br />construction jobs in the City. The hospital opened in 2014 and replaced the Kaiser Permanente
<br />Hayward Hospital. The six–story, state–of the art, 425,000–square–foot hospital includes 264
<br />acute care beds, 10 operating rooms, 24–hour emergency services with 40 treatment rooms
<br />and a newborn intensive care nursery. A medical office building houses 116 offices for primary
<br />care and specialty physicians, an outpatient procedure suite with six rooms, a pharmacy, a
<br />laboratory and radiology services.
<br />Education. The San Leandro Unified School District provides K–12 and special
<br />education programs. The area also is served by several private and parochial schools. Berkeley
<br />City College, Canada College, the College of Alameda, City College of San Francisco, Chabot
<br />College, Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College, Foothill College, Laney College, Los
<br />Medanos College, Merritt College, Ohlone College, the College of San Mateo, Skyline College
<br />and St. Mary’s College are all within an hour’s drive from the City. The University of California –
<br />Berkeley, California State University – East Bay, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco
<br />State University and Stanford University are also within an hour’s drive from the City.
<br />Transportation. Interstate Highway 580 (east–west), Interstate Highway 680 (north–
<br />south) and Highway 61 run in close proximity the City, and provide it access to the nearby cities
<br />of Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, and the Central Valley.
<br />San Leandro is located seven miles from the Oakland International Airport, 35 miles
<br />from San Jose Municipal Airport and 25 miles from San Francisco International Airport. Deep–
<br />water shipping facilities are available at the Port of Oakland and the Port of San Francisco, 10
<br />miles and 20 miles from the City, respectively.
<br />The Alameda–Contra Costa Transit District provides regional bus service and connects
<br />with the Greyhound Terminal and two San Leandro Bay Area Rapid Transit (“BART”) stations.
<br />Two Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) stations in the city connect San Leandro with San
<br />Francisco and cities in four county areas. San Leandro LINKS is a shuttle bus program for
<br />transporting employees in west San Leandro to and from the Downtown BART station. Three
<br />nearby international airports link San Leandro residents and businesses with every destination
<br />in the world. Oakland International Airport is just minutes away. The Port of Oakland, one of the
<br />West Coast’s largest containerized cargo shipping facilities, is 10 miles north of the City. The
<br />Port’s deep–water container terminal is the fourth largest and busiest in the nation, one of the
<br />top 40 container ports globally, and is served by over 35 shipping lines. San Leandro’s prime
<br />location in the Bay Area benefits both the City residents and its business community.
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