Business View Magazine | July 2019

328 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JULY 2019 ON THE MAP T he second most populous city in San Joaquin County, California, the City of Tracy, with an estimated 2016 population of 89,000, comprises 22 square miles centered in a triangle formed by the major interstates 580, 205, and 5 - thus the city’s motto, “Live within the Triangle.” Tracy is conveniently situated just an hour from Sacramento, San Francisco, and San Jose, and just a few hours from Los Angeles. Tracy is also convenient to the Bay Delta, Yosemite, Tahoe, and San Francisco Bay. The City of Tracy has established itself as an important suburb to the San Francisco Bay Area region with its solid base of small businesses, national retailers, and restaurants. Large employers in the Tracy area and the region include: Amazon, Tesla, Sutter Health, Kaiser Permanente, FedEx, Medline, GlassFab Manufacturing, and Pacific Medical. With an ongoing commitment to providing high-quality, economical, responsive services to the local community, Tracy is well- positioned for future commercial, office, and industrial development. The origins of Tracy are related to the mid-19th century construction of Central Pacific Railroad lines running from Sacramento through Stockton and to the San Francisco Bay Area. A number of small communities sprang up along these lines, including Tracy, named for Lathrop J. Tracy, a grain merchant and railroad director in Mansfield, Ohio. In 1878, construction of a new rail line was started from Oakland through Martinez to connect to the