Light-Rail Expansion
From February 2005
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The city council recently rezoned the area for transit-oriented development as the 65th Street Transit Village. RT hopes the station will be a hub serving, in particular, Sacramento State University. Friedman believes “it has a reasonable chance of success” at fulfilling this purpose.
Friedman’s company uses the name 65th Street Village, scheduled to open in April, for its retail/residential development underway. However, the development forms only a small part of the city’s overall vision for the area. The residential units Fulcrum is building are two-story lofts, with 15-foot-high windows, that encompass 10,000 square feet.
Tenants already are lined up for some of the 32,000 square feet of retail space, including Starbucks, Jamba Juice, Nextel and Office Depot. The latter company is relocating from its current Folsom Boulevard store nearby.
Light-rail was a long time coming to South Sacramento. “The community has been hoping for light-rail service for about 20 years,” says Sacramento’s District 8 City Council Member Bonnie Pannell.
Service to the area was actually approved before she joined the city council six years ago, but it wasn’t until September 2003 that the southern line to Meadowview Road opened. It was expected to carry 8,100 passengers a day by the end of its first year. “Actual ridership,” Pannell says with a smile, “is 13,600 per day.”
Good Opportunities
She says there’s currently nothing under construction at South Sacramento’s light-rail stations, but believes there are good opportunities at the Florin and Meadowview stations. Additionally, some surface buses have been rerouted to link up with the new stations.
“Forty to 50 acres (of city-owned and privately owned land) are available at each location,” says Pannell, who would like to have senior residential living incorporated into the area’s mixed-use plans.
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Friedman’s company uses the name 65th Street Village, scheduled to open in April, for its retail/residential development underway. However, the development forms only a small part of the city’s overall vision for the area. The residential units Fulcrum is building are two-story lofts, with 15-foot-high windows, that encompass 10,000 square feet.
Tenants already are lined up for some of the 32,000 square feet of retail space, including Starbucks, Jamba Juice, Nextel and Office Depot. The latter company is relocating from its current Folsom Boulevard store nearby.
Light-rail was a long time coming to South Sacramento. “The community has been hoping for light-rail service for about 20 years,” says Sacramento’s District 8 City Council Member Bonnie Pannell.
Service to the area was actually approved before she joined the city council six years ago, but it wasn’t until September 2003 that the southern line to Meadowview Road opened. It was expected to carry 8,100 passengers a day by the end of its first year. “Actual ridership,” Pannell says with a smile, “is 13,600 per day.”
Good Opportunities
She says there’s currently nothing under construction at South Sacramento’s light-rail stations, but believes there are good opportunities at the Florin and Meadowview stations. Additionally, some surface buses have been rerouted to link up with the new stations.
“Forty to 50 acres (of city-owned and privately owned land) are available at each location,” says Pannell, who would like to have senior residential living incorporated into the area’s mixed-use plans.
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