Docks Area Plan, Sacramento CA

Designed as WRT/Solomon ETC, 2008

John Ellis Urban Designer with Jim Stickley

The Docks Area Specific Plan proposes a new mixed-use neighborhood on a former brownfield site on the Sacramento River waterfront. The 27 acre site is bounded by two freeways, I-5 and Business I- 80 across the river. The location was identified as an opportunity site in the firm’s award-winning 2004 Sacramento Riverfront master plan. The Docks Area plan is designed to accommodate 1,000 residential units, 450,000 sq ft of office space, a restaurant row facing the extended riverfront promenade and a new neighborhood park. The existing city street grid, severed by the I-5 freeway is reconstituted on the site together with new mid-block lanes, thereby reconnecting with the urban pattern of the historic city. The plan proposes a wide variety of housing types ranging from townhouses, live/work lofts, stacked flats, and mid-rise to high-rise towers.

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