Two San Leandro Manufacturing Firms Expand

San Leandro has one eye on the future with its fiber optic loop, the Kaiser Hospital and the potential to attract high-tech, biotech and clean tech businesses.

Meanwhile, two recent land deals show that some of the city's industrial companies continue to prosper.

The deals began when Botner Manufacturing Company sold its property on 10000 Bigge Street to Bigge Crane & Rigging so that the latter could expand.

Botner employs about 15 people supplying prefabricated metal products to industrial clients, according to a business database.

Bigge is a nearly century-old company that moves heavy equipment. Patch wrote about Bigge when it moved a 16-inch gun from the battleship Missouri to a Marin Headlands site that will be a memorial to World War II coastal batteries.

After Botner sold its property to Bigge, the metal fabricator decided to relocate to a 1.62 acre site on 900 Aladdin Avenue.

According to the commercial real estate firm Colliers International, which brokered the deal, the move will allow Botner to modernize its engineering, equipment and production areas, and represents a retention success for San Leandro manufacturing.

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