The Ford Motor Company Assembly Plant in Richmond, California was built in the 1930s to produce the Ford Model A and, as the largest automobile assembly plant on the West Coast, helped shape the inner harbor and port while strengthening the local and regional economy during the Great Depression. Designed by industrial architect Albert Kahn, the 525,000 square foot building used abundant windows and skylights in his trademark daylight-factory style and became one of about sixty Kahn buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. During World War II, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt halted civilian automobile production, the plant was retooled as the Richmond Tank Depot, one of only three tank depots in the United States, where about 49,000 jeeps were assembled and 91,000 other military vehicles were modified for overseas shipment. The wartime workforce brought together women and men, African Americans, minorities, and whites side by side to meet production demands. After the war, the plant continued operating until the last car was produced in 1953, then closed in 1956 when Ford shifted production to San Jose because the facility could not meet higher productivity demands. The building was later used briefly as a film set, book depository, and lab, then remained largely underused for decades; after severe damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake and unsuccessful efforts to find a viable reuse that met preservation standards, it stood abandoned and condemned until rehabilitation began in 2004. Completed in 2009 by Orton Development, Inc., with Marcy Wong Donn Logan Architects, the rehabilitation returned the historic structure to use by research and development, office, retail, and industrial tenants, added a one-megawatt solar power plant on the original south-facing sawtooth roof, and helped create the bay front Craneway Pavilion, a restaurant in the restored Boiler Room, and the NPS Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front Visitor Education Center in the former Oil House.