I used to bike from SF to Berkeley when our office was there and I would always start my East Bay leg of the trip from the West Oakland Bart station. It really

I used to bike from SF to Berkeley when our office was there and I would always start my East Bay leg of the trip from the West Oakland Bart station. It really is a huge shame that that area is such a dump. It's so incredibly conveniently located and there is plenty of land and I expect rent to be very cheap relatively speaking. I imagine that it would be a great place to do hardware startups, especially around American Steel, where a lot of people into art welding work out of.