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28 <br /> <br />Alameda County. Local retailers were impacted by these changes and further by <br />competition from new suburban malls. <br />San Leandro’s evolution continued through the 1990s and early 2000s. Significant <br />reinvestment in the city’s housing stock took place, and the city gained almost 20,000 <br />residents in two decades. Much of the city’s growth was fueled by an increase in <br />foreign-born residents and young families, transforming many of the city’s shopping <br />areas and cultural institutions, and increasing school enrollment. The city’s industrial <br />areas also evolved. In 2011, San Leandro launched a public-private partnership to <br />develop an 11-mile fiber optics loop (Lit San Leandro). This investment has put the <br />city on the leading edge of the Bay Area economy and has repositioned the city’s <br />businesses to be more technology and innovation focused. At the same time, San <br />Leandro has promoted higher density development around its two BART stations, <br />creating a development pattern that is oriented toward walking, bicycling, and transit <br />use rather than driving. <br />Figure 3-2 illustrates the stages of San Leandro’s development from 1872 to 2015. <br />Chart 2-1 tracks the city’s population during the last century. Both the map and the <br />graph clearly illustrate the burst of growth that took place in the city between 1940 <br />and 1960. However, as the following pages point out, the city has continued to grow <br />and change over the past 40 years. <br />Figure 3.2 San Leandro Stages of Development 1872-2015 <br />67