Construction at City of Sacramento Parks
Special projects
2022 Sacramento River East Levee Improvements – Contract 3 (Between Zacharias Park and Garcia Bend Park)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is planning to construct levee seepage and stability improvements in the Pocket/Greenhaven area in 2022. Work will occur along the Sacramento River east levee between Zacharias Park and Garcia Bend Park. Zacharias Park is being used as a staging area and will remain closed through 2022. Garcia Bend Park and the boat launch facility will remain open and available for public use, however the western portion of the parking lot will be used as a project staging area. The eastern portion of the parking lot will remain open and available for public use.
Pre-construction activities that include the relocation of existing utilities and removing vegetation located directly in the construction footprint will occur between December 2021 – April 2022. Major levee construction activity is anticipated to occur between April 2022 – November 2022. For more information about the project, including links to final environmental documents and FAQs, visit www.sacleveeupgrades.com or contact the USACE Public Affairs Office at (916) 557-5100.
2022 Lower American River Erosion Protection Construction – Access at Glenn Hall Park
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will be constructing river bank erosion protection measures along the Lower American River levee between CSUS and Glenn Hall Park in 2022. The work will require the use of a limited portion of Glenn Hall Park for access onto the levee. The park, including the soccer/softball field and public pool, will remain open and available to the public throughout construction. USACE will be constructing a temporary access road that will necessitate the closure of the eastern side of the Glenn Hall Park parking lot and the use of a strip of grass area just west of the soccer field, approximately 16’-20’ in width from the edge of the existing sidewalk. The temporary access road will be fenced and flaggers will be present when construction traffic is present. Access into and use of the western side of the parking lot will remain available.
Levee pre-construction activity, including vegetation removal is anticipated to occur between January 26, 2022 – March 1, 2022, followed by river bank erosion protection construction starting in late spring or early summer 2022. For more information about the project, including links to final environmental documents and FAQs, visit:
https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Sacramento-Levee-Upgrades/American-River-Levees/
2022 Sacramento River East Levee Improvements – Staging at ConlinYouth Sports Complex
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will be constructing levee seepage and stability improvements along the Sacramento River east levee in 2022. The project will require limited use of a vacant portion of the Conlin Youth Sports Complex for staging equipment and materials. All park facilities, including the existing ball fields, will remain open and available to the public throughout construction. USACE will be utilizing an existing maintenance road located adjacent to the park’s facilities to access the staging area.
Sacramento River East Levee Improvement - Staging on Portion of Conlin Youth Sports complex (PDF)
Levee construction activities are anticipated to occur between March 1, 2022- November 1, 2022. For more information about the project, including links to final environmental documents and FAQs, visit https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Sacramento-Levee-Upgrades/or contact the USACE Public Affairs Office at (916) 557-5100.
Questions or comments regarding the levee construction activity can be directed to USACE at:
USACE Public Affairs Office
Phone: (916) 557-5100
Email: spk-pao@usace.army.mil
Individual Park construction
Airfield Park
Airfield Park Phase 1 Completion Photos (PDF)
PHASE 1: Completed 10/2021: Consisted of developing 4.4-acres, construction began late summer 2020. Phase 1 park improvements included developing 4.4 acres of the park. This included temporary construction fencing, grading, drainage system, irrigation system, shade trees, turf, landscaping, concrete walkways, children's themed aeronautical playgrounds, a group picnic area with two shade structures, a park name sign, park rules signs, concrete picnic tables, serving table, park benches, trash receptacles, bike racks, two outdoor ping pong tables, two cornhole games, and a drinking fountain.
PHASE 2: will consist of developing the remaining 5-acres, and is scheduled to begin construction in August 2021. Phase 2 park improvements will include developing the remaining 5 acres of the park, and includes temporary construction fencing, erosion control grading, drainage, an irrigation system, shade trees, turf and landscaping, concrete walkways, two playground shade canopies, and multi-purpose sports court, and two horseshoe courts. Phase 2 is scheduled to be completed in late spring 2022.
For additional information, visit the Airfield Park page.
Project Manager: Dennis Day, dday@cityofsacramento.org
Barandas Park
Barandas Park Ph 2 Improvements include 6 acres of park development. The project will consist of grading, drainage, irrigation, open turf area, low water-using large shade and accent trees, concrete walkways, two soccer fields, a full basketball court and a futsal court, two turf volleyball courts, a games and picnic area with a table tennis, two cornhole games, four picnic tables under shade trees, and individual picnic tables and benches. Construction began construction in May 2021 and is expected to be complete and open by late October 2021, once the park turf is acceptable to the Project Manager: Dennis Day, dday@cityofsacramento.org
Freeport Park Irrigation Improvements
Freeport Park is an existing 4.08 acre park located at 2051 Monarch Avenue. The existing irrigation system at this park has had issues for years and is extremely inefficient. This project involves the replacement of the irrigation system for most the park with a much more efficient irrigation system. The Freeport Park project is scheduled to be completed in Fall 2022. For additional information contact Jeff Nittka at jnittka@cityofsacramento.org or phone 916-808-5996.
Mae Fong Park
Improvements include: landscape development of the 2-acre detention basin bottom, with grading, installation of French drains, automatic irrigation system, and turf hydroseeding, tree planting, two park benches, and 90-days of landscape maintenance. This project began construction in summer 2021, and be complete open by the end of December 2021. Project Manager: Dennis Day, dday@cityofsacramento.org
McKinley Park Water Vault Project
A portion of McKinley Park that includes the existing baseball field, picnic table area and horseshoe courts will be closed beginning June 2019 for construction of the McKinley Water Vault project. The jogging path will be closed from Park Way to McKinley Blvd during construction and walkers and joggers will be routed around the panhandle. Jogging path enhancements will be made and will require portions of the trail to be closed during the final phase of the project. Please sign up for construction notifications on the project web page to receive updates on construction impacts in the park: http://www.cityofsacramento.org/McKinleyWaterVault for updates. See a visual rendering of the proposed park improvements as part of this project at: https://roundme.com/tour/301413/view/1009853/. The park improvements are expected to be complete and open about October 15, 2021.
Project Manager: James Yorita, jyorita@cityofsacramento.org
Meadows Park Phase 2 – Playground Improvements
Construction will begin in summer 2022 and will be completed in fall 2022. Improvements include new playground equipment and canopy shade structure in the adventure play area.
Project Manager: Tin-Wah Wong, twong@cityofsacramento.org
Nielsen Park Improvements
Nielsen Park is an existing 10.08 acre park located at 7596 Center Parkway. The Improvements at this park consist of installation of two new shade canopies in the existing adventure playground area, installation of three new picnic tables, concrete paving and soccer field renovation. This project is anticipated to be completed in the Fall 2022. For additional information contact Jeff Nittka at jnittka@cityofsacramento.org or phone 916-808-5996.
Northlake Community Park
This is a 12.4-acre community park. It will be starting construction in June and completed in Summer 2022. The first phase of Northlake Park includes the following amenities: an adventure play area with shade canopies, multipurpose fields, shaded group picnic area, individual picnic nodes with game tables, basketball court, security lighting, park naming sign, site furnishings shade trees and walking paths.
Contact Jeff Nittka at jnittka@cityofsacramento.org or phone 916-808-5996.
Regency Park Pump Track and Bike Playground
Regency Park is an existing 41.67 acre park located at 5500 Honor Parkway. This project is located at the north end of the park off Bridgecross Drive. This project consist installation of new landscaping, irrigation, pump track, meandering decomposed granite pathways for bikes with obstacles, decks and rocks to create a bike playground experience. The Regency Pump Track and Bike Playground project is scheduled to be completed in September 2022. For additional information. Contact Jeff Nittka at jnittka@cityofsacramento.org or phone 916-808-5996.
Winn Park, Albert
Construction is underway on a City project within Albert Winn Park. Selective demolition started in April 2021 on a cold-shell remodel of the existing Winn Park Building, construction work to be complete in summer 2022, followed by a landscape renovation complete by early 2023. The improvements will include new stairs, accessible lift and accessible restrooms on both floors. The building will need significant improvements after City work to make the building ready for a tenant. City is working directly with Midtown Association to coordinate with and minimize interruptions to existing Wednesdays at Winn and other events that take place in the park. There will be noise and dust during this work, so thank you for your patience as the City works to activate Albert Winn Park.
Project Manager: Ezra Roati, eroati@cityofsacramento.org
Tanzanite Park Futsal Courts
Construction will begin in November 2021 and will be completed in May 2022. Improvements included two full size futsal courts, concrete walkways, site furnishing, irrigation modifications and landscaping.
Project Manager: Tin-Wah Wong, twong@cityofsacramento.org
Temple Avenue Park Improvements
This park is a 1.06 acre neighborhood park located at 3901 34th Street. The improvements will consist of basketball court resurfacing, concrete walkways, barbeque, picnic tables, bollards and park sign. Project to be completed in summer 2022.
For additional information contact Jeff Nittka at jnittka@cityofsacramento.org or phone 916-808-5996.
Zacharias Park Construction Staging
Construction staging for this park will take place from March 31, 2021 through October 1, 2021.
Zacharias Park Construction Staging (PDF)
Project Manager: Dana Repan, drepan@cityofsacramento.org