was granted to
Ignacio Alviso in 1838. The Rincon de los Esteros district of San Jose has its origins in the old
Rancho Rincón de los Esteros, a Mexican-era
rancho granted to local
Californio ranchero
Ignacio Alviso by Governor
Juan Bautista Alvarado in 1838. The rancho would later come into the possession of the
Berryessa family of California, a prominent Californio family in the Bay Area. For much of the 19th and early 20th century, most of Rincon was occupied by orchards and fruit farms, like much of the rest of
Santa Clara Valley prior to the high-tech industrial boom of
Silicon Valley. In 1974, the
government of San Jose instituted the Rincon de los Esteros Redevelopment Plan, to develop the Rincon de los Esteros district into a major tech hub for Silicon Valley. In 1998, the city established a specific plan for
Rincon South, which has since been a separate neighborhood from the rest of Rincon. ==Economy==