Central San Leandro / Industrial District

Central San Leandro is one of those industrialized neighborhoods where you find yards filled with heavy equipment and the kind of construction related businesses that don’t make for a very attractive or inviting environment but which are necessary to any thriving metropolitan area like the Bay Area. This is the kind of place where people actually work with heavy equipment, instead of just staring at a screen (like me) all day long.

Typical businesses that you find here are Peterson Tractor whose large yard is filled with its fleet of orange tractors—and
Haulaway Storage Containers on the western end. You will also find roofers, marble providers and some kind of quarry here as well. Eighteen wheeler roll in and out of this area fairly constantly and the only people you find around here are those who have come in on business.

This is nowhere that I would want to live, but I can definitely see the benefit of having a place like this to help boost the local economy.