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A giant archway at 10th and R Streets now welcomes visitors to the historic district. The archway was just one component of the streetscape improvements designed to make R street more attractive for future development and transit-oriented living.
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A switch was thrown to light up the new R Street archway and streetscape improvement project for 10th to 13th streets on January 19, 2012. Hundreds attended the event in the historic former Fuller Paint building at 10th and R streets.
This full-scale street reconstruction project is helping make a core area of the R Street corridor more vibrant, attractive and pedestrian friendly. 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
The $5.7 million project was being funded by federal taxes and grants from the Sacramento Area Council of Governments and the Capitol Area Development Authority as well as local Measure A sales tax revenue.
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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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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Zuhair Amawi, Project Manager
(916) 808-7620
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