Marina Faire (San Leandro, CA)
By Antonio M. Cardenas Broker Associate, "The Realtors In Motion"
(RE eBroker Group - San Leandro, CA.)
Funds from a bond measure that passed in 2008 by East Bay Regional Park District voters is finally arriving for the city of San Leandro. This small town in the middle of the San Francisco bay will improve it's Walkability Level hence improving its home values. A new report by CEO's for Cities, a national network of urban leaders, reveals that homes in so-called walkable neighborhoods may be more valuable than homes in car-dependent ones. According to the report, Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Housing Values in U.S. Cities, found that higher levels of walkability, as determined by a walk score, were directly linked to higher home values. Walk scores are calculated based on a home's proximity to community amenities such as schools, retail shops, parks, libraries, banks and resta...
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By Michael Greenslade
(Better Homes & Gardens | Mason-McDuffie Real Estate)
I was talking to my source at my lead generation company.  His office is not too far from Hershey Pennsylvania and the conversation soon turned to the sweet stuff. I had to rub it in that San Leandro also has a chocolate company with in our borders.  Ghirardelli Chocolate company is located on 139th avenue between East 14th Street and Washington Avenue.  Our chocolate is actually world famous for being good chocolate. As everyone knows that the Ghirardelli chocolate company started off in San Francisco at what is now known as Ghirardelli Square.  In the 1960s the factory was moved over to more modern facilities here in San Leandro. For a while it shared the same building with Golden Grain pasta company.  You may have heard of them also, they are the makers of Rice-A-Roni and Past-A-Roni...
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By Michael Greenslade
(Better Homes & Gardens | Mason-McDuffie Real Estate)
On the Western edge of the city of San Leandro is the San Leandro Marina, Oyster Bay Regional Park and the Monarch Bay Golf Course. The Marina was concieved in the early 1950s and built in the late 1950s to early 1960s.  Along the shoreline are restaurants: Pelusso's Blue Dolphin Restaurant.  A fine dining establishment with banquet facilities. This building was built on pier pilings and was closed and torn down in recent years. El Torito, this building was originally the Casa Maria Restaurant. The restaurant later became Tia Maria Restaurant.  Similar restaurants were built at other Marinas including Berkeley.  The Chain restaurant company El Torito now operates in this location. Horatio's a fine dining establishment offering excellent food was the last to be built.  http://www.ci.san-...
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