December 31, 2007

Pittsburg: Don’t Believe the Hype

Increasing foreclosures in the east Contra Costa County town of Pittsburg have given the town’s image a black eye, understandably. But as we’ve mentioned before, there’s more to Pittsburg than those headlines might suggest. A longtime family-owned development company, Garaventa Enterprises, is planning to build Pittsburg’s tallest office building, a recent article in the Contra Costa Times said.

Joseph Garaventa, chief operating officer of Garaventa Enterprises, plans a a six-story office project he believes would be the first high-class—known in the industry as Class A—office building along the Highway 4 corridor. So don’t write Pittsburg off your list of potential cities to check out. It’s still a contender. (Photo of Black Eyed Peas’ Fergie courtesy of Jose Mejia on flickr.)