The Cannery Row Company’s new Steinbeck Plaza is now the gateway to McAbee’s beautiful and historic little beach and serves as a viewpoint into its colorful past. A diverse shopping attraction, Steinbeck Plaza Two — designed to reflect Monterey’s Spanish Colonial heritage — overlooks the beach and provides public access to its ‘feet wet’ enjoyment. […]
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Edgewater Packing Company & Warehouse Frank E. Booth, Monterey’s first major canner, made a belated entry into the burgeoning sardine reduction business in 1917 with a processing plant and warehouse near the foot of Prescott Avenue and Ocean View Avenue. The City of Monterey prohibited any further cannery construction in its harbor, forcing Booth to […]
* Please note that availability and business names change periodically. For the most up to date floor plans and availability, please contact our leasing department at 831-649-6690. California Classics (104 building A) Cannery Pizza Co. (101 building B) Pendleton Woolen Mills (113 building B) IT’SUGAR (129) Monterey Mirror Maze (109 building B) Monterey’s Tasty Olive […]
Bear Flag Building (Marina Apartments) In 1929 the Wu’s constructed the Marina Apartments across the street from the hotel just as the overpowering momentum of the canning industry took the street in an industrial direction from its earlier seaside apartments. The tiled “dragon roof” of the Marina Apartments, similar to that on the Ocean View […]
Steinbeck Plaza One is joined to Steinbeck Plaza Two by a replicated “cross-over” to the warehouse side of Cannery Row (which the canneries employed for shuttling cans). This uniquely historic feature provides access to Steinbeck Plaza One’s specialty shops, galleries, and gift shops. The design of Steinbeck Plaza One reflects a tasteful, modern interpretation of […]
One of Monterey’s premier canneries, the Monterey Canning Company, remained a major processor throughout the Monterey sardine era. Cans filled at the packing tables and cooked by steam pressure in their cans in the cannery were shuttled to this warehouse through the cross-over for boxing and shipment. The construction and success of this cannery and […]
Monterey Canning Company Cannery Scottish entrepreneurs George Harper and A.M. Allen formed one of Monterey’s major canning enterprises in time to profit from ration demands of World War I when sardines became a cheap and plentiful wartime ration. Handsome profits during wartime prompted expansion and greater mechanization of Monterey’s canning industry. The original cannery was […]
California’s First Factory Outlet Center In 1926, the American Can Company opened its sprawling sardine can production plant a short distance over the Pacific Grove city line near the Hovden Food Products cannery. This sardine can factory produced a purported twenty-six million cans in its first season of operation, going on to dominate the can […]
