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When you live along the San Francisco Bay, you expect to wake up and see the water each day. Foster City is one of those cities that loves its waterways, its lagoon, and the bay. It’s a place where people kayak, wind and kite surf, row boats, and listen to concerts in the city parks where boat docks are available for parking your electric boats and listening to the music.  The unique, one-of-a-kind planned community about 25 miles south of San Francisco and 30 miles north of San Jose along the San Francisco Peninsula is an island built on engineered landfill from the marshlands of Brewer’s Island.  T. Jack Foster put $4.7 million of his own finances into altering the desolate landscape of Brewer’s Island two years before the first home was built in Foster City over 50 years ago, circa 1962.  Read more…>

There are two hotels where tourists can stay–Crowne Plaza and Courtyard–providing great accommodations should you decide to venture out from San Francisco International Airport (SFO)  just 9 miles away to enjoy entertainment and see how the locals live. Among upcoming events are plays, concerts and ballet at the Hillbarn Theatre.  Special events include the annual Polynesian Festival in May, and the Wine & Art Festival in June, as well as summer concerts along the lagoon.