Berkeley, a Look Back: Heinz plant was in planning stages a century ago

A century ago in February 1926, Berkeley was hearing of big plans to build a major manufacturing plant. The national Heinz Co. had purchased 15 acres of land, “the old Snyder property” at the city’s northwest corner of Ashby and San Pablo avenues and was proposing to build a food processing plant there, according to Berkeley Daily Gazette archives.

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