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The City of Sacramento Department of Transportation is finalizing the design on a variety of exciting improvements to the public spaces of R Street between 10th and 13th Streets. The project is expected to break ground in Spring 2010 and be completed by the end of the year. The $4.4 million project is being funded with State dollars from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments and the Capitol Area Development Authority. This full-scale street reconstruction project will help make a core area of the R Street corridor more vibrant, attractive and pedestrian friendly. Planned improvements include:
- Raised walkways
- New roadway surfaces
- Designated on-street parking
- Safe corners and crosswalks
- Pedestrian-style street lighting
- Preservation of historic elements (e.g., rail lines)
- New drainage systems
- ADA-compliant accessibility
Once a thriving warehouse district that bisected the north and south sections of downtown, the R Street Corridor is a 27-block long, two-block wide special planning district within Sacramento’s Central City Community.
The R Street Improvements Project is a key element in historic R Street’s transformation to a new transit-oriented, mixed-use neighborhood. The R Street of tomorrow will celebrate and preserve its industrial past while simultaneously embracing a distinct new urban form to create a truly unique neighborhood in downtown Sacramento.
The 10th to 13th Street improvements are just some of the first steps the City and its community planning partners are taking to promote the corridor as a destination and enhance its diverse development opportunities. With a number of other long-term infrastructure improvements and economic development efforts looming on the horizon, the City envisions an especially bright future for R Street. We hope you will join us in making the “R Street Resurgence” a continuing community success story!
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Looking west from 10th and R Streets. Planned improvements
will seek to preserve the historic and utilitarian character of the corridor.
The historic rail lines that run down the middle of R Street
will be preserved as part of the improvements project. Rail lines
have been a key feature of R Street since the 1850s.
Improvements will still allow loading activities for area
businesses, and new walkways, street surfaces, and marked
on-street parking will enhance safety and corridor aesthetics.
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Please click on the files below to view or download the preliminary design plan was presented in 2008.
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10th Street to 11th Street (Click image to enlarge)
Looking east from 10th Street, existing conditions (left) and with proposed improvements (right).
11th Street to 12th Street (Click image to enlarge)
Looking east from 11th Street, existing conditions (left) and with proposed improvements (right).
12th Street to 13th Street (Click image to enlarge)
Looking east from 12th Street, existing conditions (left) and with proposed improvements (right).
Night Views (Click image to enlarge)
Looking east from 10th Street (left); looking east from 11th Street (right).
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www.rstreet.info
R Street Corridor Info: This educational online resource about the entire “R Street Corridor” is sponsored by the Capitol Area Development Authority (CADA), the City’s partner on the R Street Improvement Project (10th to 13th Streets).
www.cadanet.org
Capitol Area Development Authority: CADA is the Joint Powers Authority created by the City and the State of California to implement residential and neighborhood commercial development in the Capitol Area Neighborhood and R Street Plan Area.
www.shra.org
Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency: SHRA is a Joint Powers Authority that focuses on affordable housing, public housing and redevelopment projects. SHRA and CADA are partners on the Capitol Lofts housing project at 11th and R Streets.
www.sacrt.com
Sacramento Regional Transit: RT operates buses and light rail lines that serve R Street and the rest of the downtown area.
R Street residents, visitors, and employees will take advantage of multiple modes of transit, including the RT light rail system, which has a station at 13th Street just north of R Street.
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For more project-related information, please contact Project Manager Zuhair Amawi at (916) 808-7620 or zamawi@cityofsacramento.org. For community issues or to be added to the project mailing list, please contact community relations specialist Velma Lucero-Garcia at (916) 448-2440 or velma.lucerogarcia@hdrinc.com.
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