City Officials To Vote On Sleep Train Arena Redevelopment Plans

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — There’s a caller look astatine what the aged location of the Sacramento Kings volition beryllium turning into. Besides a aesculapian schoolhouse field and hospital, the caller improvement volition besides see homes and tons of unfastened abstraction officials are acceptable to ballot connected this week.

Overgrown weeds and downed trees beryllium connected the bare and abandoned footprint of the aged Sleep Train Arena. The eyesore is present successful the opening stages of a redevelopment plan.

This week, the Sacramento Parks and Community Enrichment Commission are acceptable to ballot connected the innovation parkland and California Northstate University aesculapian halfway field planned for the site.

The plans disagreement the monolithic 183-acre footprint into 3 areas: an innovation district, a wellness district, and a beingness district. The beingness territory is slated to see a quality parkland and motorcycle trails successful a spot that served arsenic a parking batch for the 16,000-fans cars that erstwhile crowed into Kings games.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg was connected manus successful June for the announced statement betwixt the Kings’ owners and California Northstate University for the instauration of the campus. That is slated to see a 263-bed infirmary and 3,000 residential units.

It’s a game-changer for Natomas and a caller imaginativeness that includes unfastened spaces successful the spot of each these aged parking spaces.

“I deliberation we request much things for radical to bash successful the community, truthful that would beryllium nice,” 1 Natomas nonmigratory said.

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The plans besides permission country for a imaginable caller simple school. They would besides see sports fields for after-school organized sports.