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Old Posted Nov 19, 2008, 10:41 PM
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This thread makes me feel disappointed, sorry if I sound like a party pooper.
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Old Posted Nov 20, 2008, 4:55 AM
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Yeah, it doe's suck... but this is what's been happening over the years. The more
digging I do the more I find, stay tuned.
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I pulled it off Google images; I did not go to the source. Sorry, you have now been credited
No worries. I was just surprised to see it.
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2008, 12:09 AM
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Oh yeah, can't forget those cross town freeway plans. One ring around town
would have been nice so traffic would not have go through downtown to go cross town.


Ohhh wee need that so badly. Going from one end of Watt to the other can take 20 minutes, but if we had that freeway i bet it would take one minute.
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Old Posted Nov 22, 2008, 6:45 AM
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Ohhh wee need that so badly. Going from one end of Watt to the other can take 20 minutes, but if we had that freeway i bet it would take one minute.
This map sort proves that not all freeways cause sprawl. Look in the southeast county, the 148, 65 and such are in areas that are now are neighborhoods and towns and tickytacky houses!
I know the Duke killed our chances in the 80's for the freeways, but I think this shows that you can't always blame freeways for sprawl; land developers and the consumers cause sprawl.
I think, where they can, they should build the freeways. I know the 65 by Rocklin-Roseville could still be built out and of course they are trying to build the Elk Grove-Rancho connector.
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Capitol Grand Tower History

Capitol Grand Tower History (2004 -2007)



Back in October 2004 Mohammed "Mo" Mohanna and John Lambeth proposed
a 32 story hotel/condo tower (315’) that would have been built at
1215 J Street where the current Capitol Grand Ballroom is now. In early 2005
Mo revised the tower to be 38 floors which was the second of four
revisions for the proposed tower. At 38 floors it had 405,000 sf, 192 hotel
room with pool and fitness room, restaurant 85 condos, and 238 parking
stalls topping out at 378’. Costs to build were estimated to be $65 million.





In February of 2006 plans were revised to include a second parcel and
expanded the size of the building. In partnership with the California Medical
Association, revised plans showed the new tower being 56 stories (701 feet)
and would have had 1.17 million sqft which includes 100,000sf of office,
395 residential condos, 250 hotel rooms with a pool and fitness room, and
several levels of subterranean. Cost to build were estimated to be $250 million.





In March of 2007 Mo Mohanna & John Lambeth and their partners the
California Medical Association revised their plans to make the tower even
taller and bigger. The fourth revision showed the tower being 70 stories and
965' to the top of the spire. The tower was going to have 7 floors of above
ground parking levels as well as 6 below going down 75' with slurry walls 3
feet thick surrounding the hole. No cost was released to build this final
revision and the EIR was never finished to proceed into the committees for approval.

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Old Posted Dec 1, 2008, 10:26 PM
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Why stop at 965'? Why not revise it one more time to break 1000'?
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^pre Raley's field?
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^pre Raley's field?
No, that's Arco Field next to the Arena... started but never finished.
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^pre Raley's field?
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=158300&page=3
Go to the bottom and it's explained.
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Old Posted Dec 13, 2008, 1:34 AM
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West Sacramento has had some grand visions too in the last 20 years. Here's
a few from 1989.


July 3, 1989
Sacramento Bee
W. Sacramento has seen future, and it’s towering
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/...ckval=GooglePM

Below are paraphrased parts from the Sacramento Bee article.

20 years ago West Sacramento had really big plans for the riverfront costing
$1 Billion plus. The metamorphosis included the areas first 40-story high-rise
tower; the first luxury riverfront developments; and the first five-star hotel
and conference center. The proposed development was to include one 40
story tower at Raley’s Landing to be finished in 1992 as well as another
developer jockeying to build their own 48 story tower.

All the proposed developments were to transform West Sacramento image
from an industrial eyesore to an auto mall on the west end to upscale
waterfront development and residential construction to the southeast.
The developers expect to spend $1 billion, and the city expected $3 billion
to be spent over the next 20 years.

West Sac’s new general plan was a commitment to develop its entire
waterfront for public use, linking pricey marinas and other developments with city parks.



Lighthouse Marian was to be finance by the Japanese, 321-acre resort
project along the Sacramento River near the mouth of the American River.
It would have included a marina, hotel convection center, 18 hole golf course
and 1,660 homes, for an estimated price of $500 million.

Raley’s Landing was to be 28-acre project just north of Tower Bridge with a
630-room hotel, five star hotel and a 40-story office tower and second
smaller tower along with 400 riverfront condominiums. The development was
to receive up to $300 million in international financing.

The Triangle, a chunk of land between I-80 and the Tower Bridge was at the
time described as “the premier piece of property in the region” and was
designated for mix-use waterfront development. As many as 20 property
owner own land in the 135 acre area with The Rice Growers Association
owning 50 acres, which was the biggest chunk on land. The at one time the
city of West Sacramento had a plan to organize an association of all the
property owners in the Triangle area to create a plan for the 135-acre site,
but the effort failed when the Rice Growers Association pulled out of a city’s
plan to organize the property owners. The RGA felt there was so little
interest in the group that it would be more useful to hire a consultant to
plan its own property.



Dean F. Unger, a Sacramento architect, owns 9 acres of the property
waterfront property just south of the Tower Bridge and had plans mapped
out but had also been approached by several development groups. One of
the groups were vying for a position to build a high-rise was Kersten’s Trade
Center Development Corp. who approached Unger and the RGA to build a
48-story tower. Unger’s plans to keep the riverfront free of traffic and open
to bicycles and pedestrians. He had plans for a layered approach from the
river with shops and restaurants from the street level with mid-rises and
high-rise buildings behind with parking structures. Unger said “I want to
do something that is very, very significant, to give something of lasting
legacy to the West Sacramento community. It’s too fine a property to not
do it absolutely correctly.”

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Secondhand style

Plans for a 38-story condo tower at Sixth and Capitol died more than a year ago.

But pieces of the "Aura" project live on – at the funky Beatnik Studios photo gallery and artist workshop at 17th and Broadway.

At the rear of the gallery are frosted wall panels, lamps and other furnishings that once were in the condo project's sales model. There's even a glass door etched with the Aura name.

When the high-profile Aura project collapsed, D&S Development of Sacramento bought the furnishings at a liquidation sale and "recycled" them into its Beatnik property, says D&S exec Bay Miry.

Miry says the company also grabbed other Aura furniture, including a bathtub "because we thought it looked really cool."

Fittingly, D&S installed those items at its own condo project now selling at 14th and R streets.

By Bob Shallit
bshallit@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008 | Page 1B
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Old Posted Dec 27, 2008, 7:50 AM
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Nacht & Lewis had plans for old railyards once... I think these were concepts
from back in the late 90's. Sactown Andy took these photos of the model back in 2003.





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Yeah, those buildings in the model are pretty hot. They remind me of the World Financial Center towers in NYC.
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^ I thought the same thing... those would have looked sweet from I-5.

These proposals never had a chance since Mo Mohanna owned the properties.
Back in 2005 the city took several proposals for how to develop the 700 block
of K Street and the corner of 9th and L Street. The city choose Joe Zidens proposal
which never came to be because a land swap dispute with Mo.
Any bets on when something will be done to the 700 block of K Street?



700 block of K Street



700 block of K Street



Corner of 9th and L Street
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That project never had a chance because it was contingent on fairly massive city subsidies ($70-90 million at the time, as I recall) and the free gift of the Marshall, the Capitol Park, the Greyhound station, the Berry, and several other properties that were not the city's to give. The Zeiden proposal was supposed to require far less city investment, and based mostly on trade of land between existing landowners.

I can only imagine how much higher that $70-90 million would have gone, if we had been foolish enough to choose that proposal, and what kind of legal battles we would be faced with. As horrid as the 700 block fiasco has been so far, with this plan it could have been even worse.
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Old Posted Jan 22, 2009, 8:32 PM
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Its sad to hear, all this goodness down the drain!
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Old Posted Jan 23, 2009, 6:22 AM
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I don't think the city subsidie was that much wburg, I beleive it was maybe
half that amout the developer was asking for... in any case, it never had
a chance with Mo still owning the property.

I prferred the second one down where the facades of the current buildings
were left and the residential midrise was built behind.
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I prferred the second one down where the facades of the current buildings
were left and the residential midrise was built behind.
I think that it's a shame that local developers have apparently fallen in love with Ankrom Moisan Architects for some reason... there is plenty of talent locally that could handle these projects. The love affair with all things Portland is grating.
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