San Ramon, California, United States

🇺🇸 San Ramon is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located within the San Ramon Valley, and 34 miles east of San Francisco. San Ramon is the 4th largest city in Contra Costa County.

San Ramon is home to the headquarters of Chevron Corporation, Cooper Companies, 24 Hour Fitness, the West Coast headquarters of AT&T, GE Digital, as well as the San Ramon Medical Center. Major annual events include the Art and Wind Festival on Memorial Day weekend and the Run for Education in October.

In 2001, San Ramon was designated a Tree City USA.

Economy Bishop Ranch, a master-planned office park development, with some retail elements, began major construction in the early 1980s, and provides a healthy tax base for the city. Bishop Ranch is situated on 585 acres once owned by Western Electric, and was farmland before that. Current tenants include the corporate headquarters of Chevron Corporation (formerly ChevronTexaco), as well the West Coast headquarters of AT&T Inc. (which had been the headquarters of Pacific Bell from about 1983, when it relocated from downtown San Francisco, until the merger with SBC Communications that created the current AT&T). United Parcel Service has a regional distribution centre in Bishop Ranch. Toyota has a regional office and parts distribution centre located there. GE Global Research started its Global Software Center in Bishop Ranch in 2011. Bishop Ranch covers the vast majority of "Central San Ramon", which is the large square formed by Freeway 680 on the west, Crow Canyon Road on the north, Iron Horse trail on the east, and Bollinger Canyon Road on the south (though several complexes are south of Bollinger). In December 2016, the Ligier EZ-10 began use in the first autonomous vehicle passenger shuttle route in North America, looping through Bishop Ranch Office Park, with on-sight operation and maintenance by First Transit.

ChevronTexaco's headquarters moved from San Francisco to San Ramon in 2001 but 12 years later, 800 jobs were moved to Houston, a quarter of the San Ramon workforce due to high corporate costs and to consolidate existing units in Houston.

Largest employers According to the city's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city include: 1 Chevron; 2 AT&T; 3 Bank of the West; 4 Robert Half International; 5 Accenture; 6 Pacific Gas & Electric; 7 San Ramon Regional Medical Center; 8 GE Digital; 9 Primed Management Consulting; 10 IBM.

Downtown In 2014, the city approved the project's design that called for an animated civic space featuring 350,000 square feet (33,000 m²) of quality shops, restaurants and a multi-screen movie theater. The city centre was designed by the award-winning international architectural firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The grand opening was on November 8, 2018.