Interesting. I didn't know Stockton was such a historic town.

^Yes, Stockton has some great old bones. The downtown feels like a rust belt city with great masonry architecture and too many abandoned buildings.

Agreed.  Stockton is certainly a West Coast rustbelt city with endless potential.  They have a wonderful little NBD just north of downtown that seems to have the urban action.  Unlike Modesto. 

I haven't been to either, but it looks like Stockton is a bit larger, with a couple of colleges.  That probably makes the difference. 

 

Nice photo set, too btw!

1 hour ago, ink said:

^Yes, Stockton has some great old bones. The downtown feels like a rust belt city with great masonry architecture and too many abandoned buildings.

That's awesome (minus the abandonment.) Yeah, it looks like it has a lot of character. It does seem to have a rust belt vibe about it, just from the pictures. Kind of reminds me of Buffalo for some reason. 

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I didn't know Stockton was so close to San Jose, Sac and SF. Looking at the map of the town, it looks really compact and efficient. Seems like it would be great place to live. Small but compact town so you probably don't have bad traffic but only like 20 miles out from major cities.

Edited July 22, 20213 yr by David

My partner's family is all in Stockton so I've spent a decent amount of time there the last few years. It definitely has good bones. A little too suburban on the outskirts for my liking, but I can look past that. The downtown definitely has so much potential. It does look like a lot of investment is incoming from people priced out of the rest of the Central Valley cities nearby and the Bay Area.

Thanks for sharing this. I was born and raised about 20 minutes north of here in Lodi. Sadly Stockton was almost always considered to be a place to "stay away from" and downtown Stockton was a place I almost never went. It always amazed me that they had some really great architecture and made me wish I could've seen its early days. They did develop their waterfront with a nice theater, etc. but it just never truly took off.