North Shore

North Shore is home to the most famous employer in Hercules, Bio-Rad Labs. Bio-Rad is a bio chemical corporation that specializes in creating diagnostic tests that identify constituent elements of organic matter. I think that is accurate, anyway. Basically they are a company known for creating medical tests (that find diseases and that kind of thing). Bio-Rad has, for example, made a test for identifying BSE (“mad cow disease”) and blood typing. They also have a series chemical spectroscopy solutions and a computer software called “KnowItAll” that helps sort it all out.

The rest of the North Shore neighborhood is home to other companies, such as A&B Die Casting. (If I had any idea what “die casting” is, I would tell you more about it, but since I don’t, I can’t.) There is also a Mechanics Bank operations center and a paper company (like on The Office, I think.)

There are some other commercial offices here too: an optometrist, a pathologist, a fitness center and a couple of eateries (a gelato place and a cheesesteak joint).

The streets here are named after inventors and science related types like Alfred Nobel and Linus Paulie.

That is pretty much it. No one lives here, but Bio-Rad is definitely one of the major players in the biochemical industry.