Business View Magazine | September 2019

184 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2019 A ntioch, California is located just off Highway 4, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, along the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta. With a population of approximately 114,000, it is the second largest city in Contra Costa County and one of the oldest towns in California. In 1848, John Marsh built a landing on the San Joaquin River, in what is now Antioch, as a shipping point for his 17,000-acre Rancho Los Meganos. It became known as Marsh’s Landing and included a pier extending well out into the river, enabling vessels drawing 15 feet of water to dock there at Antioch, California Opportunity lives here