The Development of Foster City

Foster City, California, is a thriving, successful new town of over 30,000 people, built on the shores of San Francisco Bay. It is unique in several ways: it was planned and built from scratch over the mud flats of the Bay and every bit of it is on fill. This is the story of that development, by T. Jack Foster, Jr., who, with his father and brothers, acquired four square miles of land and caused it to be transformed into that new town.