Still within Sacrament city limits, but from everything that's been presented so far, it's about as suburban of a development as you'll find.
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Council vote could lure big-box stores to Meadowview
By Tony Bizjak
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2013 - 12:00 am | Page 1A
Last Modified: Tuesday, Sep. 3, 2013 - 10:56 am
Sacramento's recent decision to ease restrictions on big-box stores did more than put the city back in the mix for future Wal-Mart and Target stores.
The politically charged City Council vote last month appears to have rejuvenated the city's efforts to build Delta Shores, a community of 5,000 housing units with a regional shopping center long planned for empty land along Interstate 5 near the Meadowview neighborhood.
The Delta Shores developer, Merlone Geier Partners of San Diego, aims to attract up to four big-box retailers to its freeway center, a critical step to finance development of the 800-acre project.
Merlone Geier lobbied for the rules change. Representatives said their retail project could be delayed or even canceled without help competing for major retail tenants.
"Anchor tenant deals are not the easiest to put together, and limiting competition only makes it that much more difficult," Merlone Geier spokesman Gary Muljat wrote in an email to The Sacramento Bee.
He said his company is in talks with retailers but declined to say which ones. Several retail and land planning professionals said the eased rules should bring once-reluctant Wal-Mart into the mix.
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http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/03/570...escouncil.html
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Hopefully there will be some more input to help turn this project a little more to the urban/suburban village concept than just a power center with a subdivision attached.