Sun Sets On Sunrise Mall As Citrus Heights Plans ‘New Heart’ Of City

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CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) — There’s nary shortage of parking astatine the Sunrise Mall successful Citrus Heights, but what you spot present won’t beryllium forever. After years of the assemblage wondering what would hap to the lot, the metropolis assembly yet nailed down a program for the dwindling mall.

City leaders voted unanimously to o.k. the Sunrise Tomorrow Specific plan.

“They should representation a downtown country that has each the convenience and necessities wrong the community, walkability and a spot wherever you tin travel and gather,” said metropolis Vice Mayor Porsche Middleton.

Middleton blames a batch of alteration successful ownership with the promenade for the years of planning. The vice politician says it took strategical readying to get each the players progressive connected committee including businesses, developers and adjacent the community.

“They privation thing breathtaking to hap there, and I deliberation this is the happening that is going to beryllium that imagination and that imaginativeness for that portion of existent estate,” said Kathilynn Carpenter, Sunrise Marketplace Executive Director.

The enforcement manager of the concern betterment territory says phasing successful the program is captious successful an ever-changing COVID economy.

“As we exit benignant of a COVID system and spot what is the post-COVID marketplace is going to beryllium like, I deliberation we person to beryllium flexible to spot what benignant of uses are going to beryllium viable,” said Carpenter.

The plans that person been a longtime successful the making are expected to alteration the halfway of Citrus Heights arsenic everyone knows it. They’re plans that person been a agelong clip successful the making — and volition alteration Citrus Heights arsenic you cognize it.

“It’s going to go the caller bosom of Citrus Heights. So we’re going to beryllium a caller assemblage imaginativeness truthful radical tin physique caller memories with their children, grandchildren implicit the adjacent 20 years,” said Middleton.

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A large extremity successful the redevelopment is to diversify the city’s economy. The program is acceptable to beryllium completed successful phases apt starting with converting each that other parking.