\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWest Sacramento took another step Wednesday in its ongoing transformation of the Bridge District, with the city council approving the purchase of a nearly 3-acre property near Sutter Health Park.The city agreed to buy the site north of the ballpark for $3.2 million, a move city leaders said is primarily aimed at infrastructure improvements, but one that is also drawing attention because of the property\u2019s long-term development potential.City officials said the site is in one of the fastest-changing parts of West Sacramento, where new construction along the waterfront has helped bring more people into the area and into nearby businesses.\u201cWe\u2019ve definitely seen an influx of traffic to this area, and that\u2019s been really wonderful so far,\u201d said Bia Hoskins, general manager of Drake\u2019s: The Barn.Hoskins said businesses have already adjusted to the area\u2019s growth and to larger crowds tied in part to baseball at Sutter Health Park, home to the River Cats and the Athletics for a second season.\u201cWe\u2019ve made some adaptations to our service model to get people in quicker, served faster, and I think it\u2019s been paying off \u2014 the guests are having a better experience,\u201d Hoskins said.West Sacramento City Manager Aaron Laurel said the property is significant because it is one of the last remaining industrial sites in the Bridge District.\u201cThis property is really the last holdout of industrial use in the Bridge District,\u201d Laurel said.Laurel said the city\u2019s long-standing plan for the site has centered on infrastructure improvements along 5th Street. Still, he acknowledged the land also has strategic value because of its location near the ballpark.\u201cIf there were an expansion opportunity for Major League Baseball, it\u2019s definitely a site that has strategic value long term,\u201d Laurel said. \u201cBut just to be clear, the city would be pursuing this acquisition regardless.\u201dThat possibility has caught the attention of baseball fans and residents who say they want to see more growth in the district.\u201cThere\u2019s been some fantastic growth, and we see all the new builds,\u201d Michelle Hogue said. \u201cI would love to see more down here.\u201d\u201cEspecially baseball,\u201d Becky Metcalf added.Laurel said visible development tied to the infrastructure work is still likely several years away.\u201cI would anticipate would be done in the next, like, say, 3 to 5 years,\u201d Laurel said.The city said funding for the project will come from a special Bridge District fund supported by property taxes generated within the surrounding area, not from the city\u2019s general fund.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tWEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
West Sacramento took another step Wednesday in its ongoing transformation of the Bridge District, with the city council approving the purchase of a nearly 3-acre property near Sutter Health Park.<\/p>\n
The city agreed to buy the site north of the ballpark for $3.2 million, a move city leaders said is primarily aimed at infrastructure improvements, but one that is also drawing attention because of the property\u2019s long-term development potential.<\/p>\n
City officials said the site is in one of the fastest-changing parts of West Sacramento, where new construction along the waterfront has helped bring more people into the area and into nearby businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve definitely seen an influx of traffic to this area, and that\u2019s been really wonderful so far,\u201d said Bia Hoskins, general manager of Drake\u2019s: The Barn.<\/p>\n
Hoskins said businesses have already adjusted to the area\u2019s growth and to larger crowds tied in part to baseball at Sutter Health Park, home to the River Cats and the Athletics for a second season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve made some adaptations to our service model to get people in quicker, served faster, and I think it\u2019s been paying off \u2014 the guests are having a better experience,\u201d Hoskins said.<\/p>\n
West Sacramento City Manager Aaron Laurel said the property is significant because it is one of the last remaining industrial sites in the Bridge District.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis property is really the last holdout of industrial use in the Bridge District,\u201d Laurel said.<\/p>\n
Laurel said the city\u2019s long-standing plan for the site has centered on infrastructure improvements along 5th Street. Still, he acknowledged the land also has strategic value because of its location near the ballpark.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf there were an expansion opportunity for Major League Baseball, it\u2019s definitely a site that has strategic value long term,\u201d Laurel said. \u201cBut just to be clear, the city would be pursuing this acquisition regardless.\u201d<\/p>\n
That possibility has caught the attention of baseball fans and residents who say they want to see more growth in the district.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been some fantastic growth, and we see all the new builds,\u201d Michelle Hogue said. \u201cI would love to see more down here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEspecially baseball,\u201d Becky Metcalf added.<\/p>\n
Laurel said visible development tied to the infrastructure work is still likely several years away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would anticipate [it] would be done in the next, like, say, 3 to 5 years,\u201d Laurel said.<\/p>\n
The city said funding for the project will come from a special Bridge District fund supported by property taxes generated within the surrounding area, not from the city\u2019s general fund.<\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Sacramento took another step Wednesday in its ongoing transformation of the Bridge District, with the city council…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14852,2820,599,30942,8269,2135,128137,54140,1610,68607,128140,46674,1334,96037,1459,128138,121,123,122,128139,2963,2958],"class_list":["post-303885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-andres-valle","tag-app","tag-area","tag-athletics","tag-attention","tag-baseball","tag-bia-hoskins","tag-bridge-district","tag-city-council","tag-drakes-the-barn","tag-infrastructure-improvement","tag-laurel","tag-mlb","tag-nearby-business","tag-part","tag-property-purchase","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-site-north","tag-sutter-health-park","tag-west-sacramento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303885","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=303885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}