{"id":176236,"date":"2026-02-13T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176236\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:27:14","slug":"touring-sacramentos-expanding-aggie-square-9-months-after-innovation-hubs-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176236\/","title":{"rendered":"Touring Sacramento’s expanding Aggie Square 9 months after innovation hub’s opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

A marriage of academics and industry \u2014 that’s the promise of Aggie Square, a complex of new buildings along Stockton Boulevard in Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The innovation district had cost more than $1 billion to build. It’s now up and running, with new lab space and student housing.<\/p>\n

Aggie Square opened last May, just two blocks from the UC Davis Medical Center.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing. We have state-of-the-art machines and amazing personnel working in the labs here,” said UC Davis graduate student Owne Bosley.<\/p>\n

Bosley is an engineering grad student, but he spends most of his time working with hospital staff on high-tech medical research.<\/p>\n

“My group is working on a way to simulate hemodynamics and small vasculature of the brain,” he said.<\/p>\n

It’s just one example of the collaboration at Aggie Square between scientists, students, private companies, and angel investors.<\/p>\n

“It’s a really porous kind of vibrant place where all of these different stakeholders can come together,” said Monique Brown of Wexford Science and Technology.<\/p>\n

Aggie Square includes a tech foundry where 3-D parts can be manufactured.<\/p>\n

“When they’re coming up with these new novel ideas and they need something custom-made for their research, they’ll come to us,” said Vanessa Quiroz, an engineer within the tech foundry.<\/p>\n

One of the first tech companies to move in is IntelliVasc<\/a>, which designs cardiovascular monitoring devices.<\/p>\n

“There is a convergence of talent that for us was really important,” IntelliVasc founder Andrew Ortega-Verdaguer said.<\/p>\n

UC Davis is taking up about 60% of the campus, but there’s still empty commercial lab and office space that remains unleased.<\/p>\n

“I think that it is living up to its promise, but this is a long-term thing,” said Jay Schenirer, a partner at Capital Impact and a former Sacramento city councilmember.<\/p>\n

There had been some initial concerns that Aggie Square would drive up housing prices in the surrounding Oak Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The project includes nearly 200 new apartments with priority given to students, and $10 million is being spent to prevent gentrification.<\/p>\n

“In order to keep housing affordable and create more inventory, having this in the district was really important from a community standpoint,” Brown said.<\/p>\n

It’s a billion-dollar investment that supporters say is designing life-saving technology while building up Sacramento’s high-tech economy.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty amazing to see private industry interact with the university,” Bosley said.<\/p>\n

Aggie Square has also become a community gathering spot and has hosted more than 400 events in its first year.<\/p>\n

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