The firm hired local muralist Raphael Delgado to paint the wall of an adjacent tile company building that faces the complex. Delgado is known for several of midtown\u2019s signature murals, including the angular golden bear at the corner of 21st and N streets, and the mother and child at 6th and L streets.<\/p>\n
Artist Raphael Delgado stands in front of a mural he is working on at the R21 housing development in Sacramento on Thursday. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com <\/p>\n
Delgado and Michael Ruiz, the artist assistant on the project, created a honeycomb pattern over a black background, and filled some of the hexagons with local references, such as Delgado\u2019s signature golden bear, and a quail, the California state bird. They plan to add the Tower Bridge to complete the mural when weather permits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like angles and sharp lines,\u201d Delgado said. \u201cI want your eye to dance around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inside the condos, the kitchens and bathrooms are lined with hexagonal tiles, a nod to The Bee and to the tile company<\/a>. One of the units had a series of hexagonal mirrors ascending the stairway.<\/p>\n \u201cWe sprinkled that in as much as we could, to try and bring attention to the history,\u201d Walmsley said.<\/p>\n Each unit has a washer-dryer, and a two-car garage. The least expensive units, which feature two bedrooms and 3.5 baths, are priced at $878,990. The most expensive unit is priced at $962,990.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have coffee shops, restaurants, yoga studios, workout studios. Ice Blocks is right there,\u201d Walmsley said. \u201cSo we really envision people that appreciate that I can ride my bike down to the river, and then walk over and catch my hot yoga class, and go to the farmers market on the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n McClatchy, the news organization\u2019s parent company, sold two of its sites \u2014 the Sacramento home of The Bee and the Missouri home of The Kansas City Star \u2014 for a combined $56.75 million in 2017. The Bee building was bought by Irvine-based Shopoff Realty Investments.<\/p>\n Shopoff leased the building back to the newspaper after the purchase. McClatchy filed for bankruptcy in 2020 and was sold to Chatham Asset Management, and The Bee relocated its newsroom in 2021 from the Q Street building to The Cannery complex on Alhambra Boulevard.<\/p>\n Shopoff secured entitlements for housing on the property and began offloading pieces of the real estate. Beazer acquired its portion for $9.8 million.<\/p>\n The portion of the site that was once occupied by The Bee building was acquired for $18.5 million by Tim Lewis Communities, a Roseville-based homebuilding firm with a reputation for luxury housing.<\/p>\n The firm previously said that construction of 61 townhomes and 60 single-family condos could begin as early as this summer. A spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment on that project.<\/p>\n A kitchen inside one of the display units at the R21 housing development in Sacramento on Thursday. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com
A bathroom inside one of the display units at the R21 housing development in Sacramento on Thursday. The unit uses hexagonal tiles as a part of drawing inspiration from The Sacramento Bee, the parking lot of which the housing development is built on. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com <\/p>\n
A dining nook inside one of the display units at the R21 housing development in Sacramento on Thursday. The unit used hexagonal tiles as a part of drawing inspiration from The Sacramento Bee, the parking lot of which the housing development is built on. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com
A bedroom inside one of the display units at the R21 housing development in Sacramento on Thursday. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com <\/p>\n
Construction continues at the R21 housing development in Sacramento on Thursday. HANNAH RUHOFF hruhoff@sacbee.com
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