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It's my new home. There's really a lack of commercial development for a number of reasons but I've never felt unsafe.

I think cheap property and close proximity to the most active East Bay Bart are some really big advantages.

A few coffee shops, grocers and startups and I think the area could rapidly transform.

It's unfortunately been a poor neighborhood for a long long time. The university is too far for students to take advantage of low cost of living, and without young people providing both custom and cheap labor, it is difficult to grow the cultural infrastructure. It'll change eventually, and maybe Kato will be able to trigger a renaissance there... It's a ridiculously convenient location (1 bart stop away from downtown SF).

I don't know of a single one.

There's lots of art stuff happening, but no tech/internet (which isn't that surprising).

AFAIK the American Steel warehouse there is the center of a lot of the big metal art stuff in the Bay Area.