[CPEO-BIF] Sacramento Railyards, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sacramento Project 'Almost a City in Itself'

By MORRIS NEWMAN
New York Times
August 12, 2009

SACRAMENTO - The western terminus of the first transcontinental railroad 
is a forlorn place these days. All that is left of the historic 
railyards are seven immense brick buildings, the remnants of an era when 
this site was the busiest industrial center in northern California. 
There is little indication yet of a $5.3 billion redevelopment plan to 
transform the site.

But the old railroad buildings are expected to come back to life as the 
retail portion of a huge project called the Sacramento Railyards. In the 
next 20 years, the developer Thomas Enterprises, based in Newnan, Ga., 
plans to build up to 12,000 residential units, 800,000 square feet of 
commercial space, scattered small parks, a railroad history museum and a 
performing arts center.

The ambitious housing plans reflect the anticipated growth of 
Sacramento, a city of 481,097 people that is expecting 100,000 new 
residents in the next 20 years. Thomas Enterprises says it intends to 
build many of the first 400 residential units in mixed-use projects, 
with retailing at street level and housing on upper stories. In later 
phases, the plan calls for more units, this time in a mix of low-rise 
and high-rise apartment buildings.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/realestate/commercial/12rail.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=sacramento%20train%20station&st=cse

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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