[wburg]

It's not actually going to be vacant--it is a federal office building occupied by federal offices, only the Post Office staff will be vacating and they only use a small portion of the building. It is still kind of a bummer, because that building is very iconic and beautiful inside and out--effectively it will no longer have any public function and become a restricted-access federal building.

Of course, if the feds are willing to hand it over, it would become a great base for a satellite campus, or, better yet, part of a full-time four-year private college campus located in downtown Sacramento--and it's pretty close to another iconic and beautiful but vacant building, the old Hall of Justice at 6th and H Street, which would provide expansion room. Then all we need are some dormitory buildings for student housing...preferably, tall ones.