Sacramento Proposal/Approval/Construction Thread - III

[TWAK]

just got kicked outa some club by arden, my 1 atempt to be urban fails!!

[TowerDistrict]

Originally Posted by ozone

Zaha Hadid Architects of London has been selected to design a $162 million civic center complex in the future Elk Grove Town Center.

wow... that's really amazing. did you guys see the article and renderings in SacTown mag? i don't really know what to say about the design - it was almost entirely conceptual and a bit vague. it will be very interesting to see how her bid fleshes out when actual buildings take shape.

[Sacto]

^ Anybody got a bigger version of that image?

[ltsmotorsport]

Originally Posted by TWAK

just got kicked outa some club by arden, my 1 atempt to be urban fails!!

Hate to break it to ya, but Arden is a little far from urban.

[Web]

Arden Delpaso is somewhat

[TWAK]

Originally Posted by ltsmotorsport

Hate to break it to ya, but Arden is a little far from urban.

seemed crowded, there was a night life, and some expensive restaurants i can't afford in the area. Is that urban?

[ltsmotorsport]

Were there big parking lots all around?

[greenmidtown]

Originally Posted by TWAK

seemed crowded, there was a night life, and some expensive restaurants i can't afford in the area. Is that urban?

I've met a lot of central valley people who come to arden or watt and think they're in the city. It's definitely suburban in that it's outside the periphery of the urban core. It might have traffic, expensive chain restaraunts, bars, or clubs but you can find all of that in any suburb. I think what sucks about Arden is that it has worse urban problems than the central city neighborhoods but it's still suburban. It's basically a land of strip malls but cars get stolen, people get mugged, raped, shot more than in Midtown/East Sac, probably even downtown. I think only North Sac and South Sac can rival it, but North Sac seems to be cleaning up nicely.

[Brotha_Lynch]

What's up guys. So me and some friends were in downtown last night by the 621? project, and we though, why not go check it out. So basically we climbed the ladder all the way to the top floor and I had a chance to snap some pictures with my cellphone before we heard someone on the construction elevator go up for us.

Well, here you go

[aufbau]

Originally Posted by Brotha_Lynch

What's up guys. So me and some friends were in downtown last night by the Aura project, and we though, why not go check it out.

I wish you were able to climb to the top of the aura by now, but you were in 621CM, an under-construction office tower next to aura! Neat perspective, but be careful!

[Brotha_Lynch]

Originally Posted by aufbau

I wish you were able to climb to the top of the aura by now, but you were in 621CM, an under-construction office tower next to aura! Neat perspective, but be careful!

Hey let's just call that a typo. I know the difference between the 2 lol

[northbay]

sweeet view

[foxmtbr]

Haha, great job! I can't believe someone would climb a 400 foot ladder! Hopefully you didn't get in huge trouble or anything.

[Phillip]

Originally Posted by ltsmotorsport

Hate to break it to ya, but Arden is a little far from urban.

I don't think of Arden as urban in a Downtown sense, but to me it's still urban.

Even though Arden area is mostly suburban-style strip development to me it has more of a "city sensibility", as opposed to a "suburban sensibility". Same thing with Florin Road.

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Does anyone know why many U.S. government reports refer to the Sacramento metro area as "Sacramento-Arden-Arcade"? Why not "Sacramento-Folsom" or "Sacramento-Placer County" or just plain "Sacramento"?

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And while we're on Arden...does anyone know why the Arden Circuit City moved to its new location, a few blocks east, at Arden and Howe? I haven't been inside the new store yet, but driving past it looks like a worse location than what they had before. The new store doesn't look bigger (at least not from the outside) and the parking lot definitely looks smaller than what they had next to Mervyn's. I can't imagine that new lot will be able to accomodate CC's business at Christmas.

I'm guessing Circuit City HAD to move for some reason. It's too bad CompUSA didn't go out of business six months sooner because the CompUSA location would have been better (imo) than what CC just moved into.

[BrianSac]

I don't think of Arden as urban in a Downtown sense, but to me it's still urban.

Even though Arden area is mostly suburban-style strip development to me it has more of a "city sensibility", as opposed to a "suburban sensibility". Same thing with Florin Road.

Philip,
I think I know what you mean. "Urban" is also, a state of mind, South Central LA is mostly suburban in look, but definetely "urban" in attitude. Many parts of the San Fernando Valley are classicly suburban, but urban in state of mind.

[uzi963]

Originally Posted by Phillip

I don't think of Arden as urban in a Downtown sense, but to me it's still urban.

And while we're on Arden...does anyone know why the Arden Circuit City moved to its new location, a few blocks east, at Arden and Howe? I haven't been inside the new store yet, but driving past it looks like a worse location than what they had before. The new store doesn't look bigger (at least not from the outside) and the parking lot definitely looks smaller than what they had next to Mervyn's. I can't imagine that new lot will be able to accomodate CC's business at Christmas.

I'm guessing Circuit City HAD to move for some reason. It's too bad CompUSA didn't go out of business six months sooner because the CompUSA location would have been better (imo) than what CC just moved into.

I think that the new Circuit City is a better location. You're right that there's less parking (but there are a bunch of extra spots behind the store near guitar center), and if you go inside you see it has at least as much if not more floor space than the other location. I think that whole shopping center where it used to be located (mervyn's/sports authority/petco) and all those other smaller businesses in that little stretch have problems because that place is just so removed from the street-front. The new location by comparison is right in the middle of things.

I hope they're able to revamp that whole stretch of businesses where circuit city used to be. It's a great location, but they just don't have enough of the major anchor stores to draw the crowds to help them compete.

[downtownserg89]

no floors!

[bennywah]

^
where circuit city is now on arden used to be the 3rd busiest good guys store in california (i used to work there), the wherehouse is a lot smaller, but the floor area is more open than the old circuit city location and it fits circuit city's new business model more than the old store. Circuit city has decided to stop competing with best buy in a sense and refocus to the upper, almost what good guys did in its day. Best buy on the other hand is trying to compete with wal-mart and dell for market share, and being that there in the top 100 of fortune 500 companies and the cash reseres in the bank to compete it no longer worries about circuit cities and competitors of that nature. Having worked for circuit city back in the day before going to good guys, and later best buy, that location will be better for circuit city than the off the street hidden location it had before where during x-mas it had to share parking with mervyns and other retail joints too!!

[reggiesquared]

What's needed is a definition of what urban is to be able to classify an area as urban. The whole Arden area with its clusterf**k of cars, traffic and activity is very urban a la San Jose but its no West LA.

Sacramento Arden Arcade: Why DO they call it that? Sounds very 70's Although Sacramento + Arden is probably the most dense area in the county.

Circuit City: The new store is way better than the last one. Their new business model needed a new location and has higher visibility. Its a bit more urban looking than the last place with its expansive sticky dirty blacktop parking lot.

[Sacto]

Good stuff, brotha_lynch. Now you need to do the same thing during day light with heavy construction activity...