A building that stands as a reminder of a vanished local industry dominated by Japanese-Americans in the decades before World War II will be preserved as a meeting room in a planned senior housing project.
In an arrangement that satisfies historical preservationists, Eden Senior Center will use the building that once housed the Contra Costa Forist on San Pablo Avenue as a meeting room for residents, according to the Contra Costa Times. The flower shop was owned by the Mabuchi family and was part of a thriving floral industry in the East Bay.
Read this article from 2011 for more information about the East Bay's golden age of greenhouses, the Contra Costa Florist and the Mabuchi family.
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