{"id":204771,"date":"2026-03-05T01:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204771\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:15:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T01:15:16","slug":"what-is-doco-what-to-know-about-downtown-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204771\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DoCo? What to know about Downtown Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"A sign for Downtown Commons, also known as DoCo, stands near K and Seventh streets in Sacramento on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.\" title=\"A sign for Downtown Commons, also known as DoCo, stands near K and Seventh streets in Sacramento on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        A sign for Downtown Commons, also known as DoCo, stands near K and Seventh streets in Sacramento on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>                Randall Benton<\/p>\n<p>            Sacramento Bee file<\/p>\n<p>A violent crime at Downtown Commons, or DoCo, has drawn greater attention to the dining, shopping and entertainment complex.<\/p>\n<p>A man and woman were <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article314905589.html\">stabbed Monday night<\/a> in Downtown Commons, police told The Sacramento Bee. The stabbing was reported about 9:45 p.m. in the 400 block of K Street.<\/p>\n<p>The two were taken to a hospital, where the man, identified by his family as Dustin DeWitt, 21, of Stockton, died. The woman\u2019s medical condition has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Police are continuing to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what to know about Downtown Commons:<\/p>\n<p>What is DoCo?<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Commons, or DoCo, is \u201ca place for community, bringing people together to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.docosacramento.com\/about-us\">experience a mix<\/a> of food and shopping, sports and entertainment, hospitality, and public art, conveniently located in the heart of downtown Sacramento,\u201d the complex said.<\/p>\n<p>It is located adjacent to Golden 1 Center on David J. Stern Walk, an extension of K Street, in downtown Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.docosacramento.com\/visit\">complex is open<\/a> from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, although individual business hours may differ, the complex said.<\/p>\n<p>What is the history of DoCo?<\/p>\n<p>The complex was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/city-arena\/article35438991.html\">formerly part<\/a> of the Downtown Plaza mall, once home to a Macy\u2019s and other businesses, including nightclubs and shops, The Sacramento Bee reported.<\/p>\n<p>Plagued by vacancies and other problems, the mall closed in 2014 to make way for construction of Golden 1 Center and a nearby hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder reopened as Downtown Commons, or DoCo, in 2015. The Macy\u2019s store closed in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>  Loading\u2026<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/218174905\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Don Sweeney<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Don Sweeney has been a newspaper reporter and editor in California for more than 35 years. He is a service reporter based at The Sacramento Bee.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sign for Downtown Commons, also known as DoCo, stands near K and Seventh streets in Sacramento on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94731,6462,17841,94732,121,94733,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-204771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-doco-sacramento","9":"tag-downtown-commons","10":"tag-golden-1-center","11":"tag-k-street-stabbing","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-complex","14":"tag-sacramento-headlines","15":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}