What's the Big Idea?
From January 2006
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ZIEGLER: “The Sacramento port is (this) underutilized, bizarrely regulated asset to this community that could gen-erate business, development or you name it.”
Located just 79 nautical miles from San Francisco, the Port of Sacramento has a Bay Area transportation connection that will be a vital corridor as the state’s population increases and as highway traffic worsens. Port of Sacramento officials have begun serious discussions with the Port of Oakland about its proposal to run the West Sacramento facility as an adjunct to handle Oakland’s growing Asian cargo.
BIGGART: “What kind of identity does that give Sacramento? Do we want to become a utility for the Bay Area?”
TEEL: “An expanded airport will bring businesses and tax revenue into the region. That is the money that can build an arena or another Mondavi Center, or a university or any of those important things that Sacramento can become known for in the public eye. So I see an airport project as a catalyst to other civic projects.”
PETERS: “The county airport is getting ready to spend more than a billion dollars on airport expansion over the next 10 years. It owns 6,000 acres and is going to build quite a visionary Terminal B.”
Sacramento International Airport has more room than any other major airport in the state to expand. It anticipates adding direct ? ights to Vancouver, B.C., in 2006. Airline of? cials say becoming a hub for ? ights to Asia and other continents is still in the distant future. They say company execs consider-ing relocating to the region frequently ask if they can “get their folks in and out of there.”
COHEN: “You can have the greatest airport in the world, but if you have to come to Sacramento from Roseville to get there, it is not going to work.”
GAINES: “We are talking about a Placer parkway. We have an organization called SPARTA that is collecting developer fees to help fund that. It will serve as an alternative to I-80 that will get drivers from Highway 65 to the 70/99 corridor, an alternative for getting people to the airport.”
PETERS: “850,000 people will soon be moving into our area. That may sound like a horrifying number, but higher densities do provide the tax increments to pay for more expansive light rail.”
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Located just 79 nautical miles from San Francisco, the Port of Sacramento has a Bay Area transportation connection that will be a vital corridor as the state’s population increases and as highway traffic worsens. Port of Sacramento officials have begun serious discussions with the Port of Oakland about its proposal to run the West Sacramento facility as an adjunct to handle Oakland’s growing Asian cargo.
BIGGART: “What kind of identity does that give Sacramento? Do we want to become a utility for the Bay Area?”
TEEL: “An expanded airport will bring businesses and tax revenue into the region. That is the money that can build an arena or another Mondavi Center, or a university or any of those important things that Sacramento can become known for in the public eye. So I see an airport project as a catalyst to other civic projects.”
PETERS: “The county airport is getting ready to spend more than a billion dollars on airport expansion over the next 10 years. It owns 6,000 acres and is going to build quite a visionary Terminal B.”
Sacramento International Airport has more room than any other major airport in the state to expand. It anticipates adding direct ? ights to Vancouver, B.C., in 2006. Airline of? cials say becoming a hub for ? ights to Asia and other continents is still in the distant future. They say company execs consider-ing relocating to the region frequently ask if they can “get their folks in and out of there.”
COHEN: “You can have the greatest airport in the world, but if you have to come to Sacramento from Roseville to get there, it is not going to work.”
GAINES: “We are talking about a Placer parkway. We have an organization called SPARTA that is collecting developer fees to help fund that. It will serve as an alternative to I-80 that will get drivers from Highway 65 to the 70/99 corridor, an alternative for getting people to the airport.”
PETERS: “850,000 people will soon be moving into our area. That may sound like a horrifying number, but higher densities do provide the tax increments to pay for more expansive light rail.”
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