The City of Sacramento and the Sacramento Kings have announced plans to replace the basketball team’s vacated home, the Sleep Train Arena, with a new 400-bed medical facility for California Northstate University. Located in the Natomas area north of downtown, the sports arena will be demolished and replaced with a building designed by San Francisco-based Fong & Chan Architects.
Lobby view in the California Northstate University proposed Natomas hospital, design by Fong & Chan Architects
Designed by Fong & Chang Architects, the 13-story metal-clad proposal appears like deconstructed masses neatly balanced into a single complex. The upper seven stories are cantilevered above, with vertical fins providing shade along rounded floorplates.
Rendered activity within the lobby of the California Northstate University proposed Natomas hospital, design by Fong & Chan Architects
The design approach mirrors one of the firm’s previous Bay Area hospital projects, the 284-bed Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center. Also consisting of three components, the architecture firm describes that “the shape of each building component was selected for its effectiveness in accommodating the extensive program and for optimizing the operational flow and efficiency of every hospital department.”
Sleep Train Arena, image via Google Satellite
The Sleep Train Arena, originally the ARCO Arena, was built in 1988 for $40 million. The building has been home to the Sacramento Kings up to 2016, when the team moved to Golden 1 Center in Downtown Sacramento.
California Northstate University proposed Natomas building front view, design by Fong & Chan Architects
Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said of the project in a press release, “This announcement fulfills a promise to North Natomas to replace the former Kings arena with an employment center and economic engine both for the community and for the city as a whole.”
Looking down onto the lobby for the proposed California Northstate University hospital in Sacramento, design by Fong & Chan Architects
California Northstate University was founded in 2008, based out of Elk Grove, south of Sacramento. CNU first proposed the new hospital to be built in Elk Grove in 2018, but the city rejected the plan.
The private for-profit medical university consists of five colleges focusing on Pharmacy, Medicine, Psychology, Graduate Studies, and Health Sciences. The project is expected to cost $750 million and generate $4.04 billion in regional economic output across ten years.
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