Emeryville is a small city in
Alameda County, California, in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of
Berkeley and
Oakland, extending to the shore of
San Francisco Bay. Its proximity to San Francisco, the
Bay Bridge, the
University of California, Berkeley, and
Silicon Valley has been a catalyst for recent economic growth. It is home to
Pixar Animation Studios,
Peet's Coffee & Tea,
Jamba Juice, The
Center for Investigative Reporting and
Clif Bar. In addition, several well known biotech and software companies have made their home in Emeryville:
Electronic Arts'
Maxis Software division,
LeapFrog,
Sendmail,
MobiTV,
Novartis (formerly
Chiron before April 2006), and
BigFix (now
IBM). The population was 10,080 as of 2010, although it swells considerably on
weekdays due to the city's position as a regional employment center. Emeryville has some features of an
edge city; however, it is located within the inner urban core of the Oakland/greater
East Bay and was heavily industrialized before the
First World War.
