Introduction

The year is 1958...across the Bay, Union City is on the verge of incorporation...the national flag still has only 48 stars...and developer T. Jack Foster is coming out of a short-lived Pebble Beach retirement, taking a $200,000 option to buy Brewer's Island in an unlikely venture to build a "new city," to be named Foster City, with Bay Area business magnate Richard Grant.

Foster City is now a thriving reality with a population of approximately 30,000 people and a daytime population of employees that nearly equals the evening population of residents.  The City is resplendent with trees, lagoons and award-winning homes.  In the midst of this beauty and prosperity it is difficult to picture the raw, barren land of Brewer's Island with which Foster and Grant began their development.