More funds have been secured for the Sacramento Valley Station redevelopment plan, a vision to shape the city’s historic transit hub and seventh busiest Amtrak station in the country into a dense pedestrian-oriented destination. The State awarded $42 million to the Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority to fund the new bus depot, part of the early phasing for construction.
Sacramento Valley Station view of the historic center and a potential additional tower, rendering by Steelblue
Sacramento Valley Station train concourse, rendering by Steelblue
The funds are expected to go towards a new bus depot and mobility hub at Valley Station. The bus depot, with an estimated cost of $140 million, will be part of the decade-long plan to connect the train stop to light rail, buses, and bicycle networks. The most significant addition will be a long canopy-capped concourse directing passengers from the station to the train tracks. A conceptual site-map envisions mid-rise and high-rise housing immediately beside the transit plaza. West of the transit center, landscaping and open-air amenities will populate the pathway to the Sacramento River.
Sacramento Valley Station site map
Sacramento Valley Station plaza aerial view, rendering by Steelblue
The initial concept plan was finished in 2018. After that, the Station Area Plan with compelling renderings was published in mid-2021, revealing the work of Perkins&Will with ARUP, Grimshaw Architects, EPS, AIM Consulting, and the city. The project spans a triangular 31-acre area between Old Sacramento, the railyards district, and Downtown. Its central location allows to imagine a grand gateway for sustainable transit to the State Capitol.
Sacramento Valley Station pedestrian plaza, rendering by Steelblue
The bus depot is just one of a slew of projects needed before construction can even start with the transit center. In reporting by Emily Hamann for the Sacramento Business Journal, the city wrote that funding for a new storm drain line was pivotal to redirecting the site’s existing stormwater retention. Sacramento’s regional transit district will need to reroute light rail tracks behind the station too. An ambitious timeline is set to start construction by 2027 or 2028.
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It’s amazing how when a transit line is used by state politicians, the funding magically appears for it.
Seventh busiest Amgrak station in the county? Sirely there are not seven Amtrak stations is Sacramento County. Or did you mean country?
the Chinese build entire cities in two years
And?
Sacramento sorely needs better regional connectivity and city transit. This is a great start but too little and too slow
The Chinese started its first high speed rail project in 2008. They now have 26,000 miles of HSR lines in operation. The California HSR Project was approved in 1996. There still hasn’t been a single foot of HSR track laid.
CA has a huge water problem. The largest water supply for the northern end of the state comes from the Sacramento-SanJoaquin River Delta, which supplies all water for the fertile San Joaquin Valley agriculture, much of the water for the southern SF Bay Area, and a significant portion of the water supply for the Los Angeles basin. Yet, the enviro mafia has successfully reduced by litigation the water supplies for all those areas to protect a two+inch long fish, the Delta smelt, found only there, and ‘endangered’.The world will not end if the Delta Smelt goes extinct. But the price of water, fruits, and vegetables will go through the roof if this insanely unbalanced policy continues.
Welcome to California.
The delta smelt are only a fraction of the real issue here,which is that Socal is primarily a no mans land,a vast desert that cannot sustain the millions of people that live there. they love to brag of the sunshine,and “lifestyle” ,but it comes at the expense of SUSTAINABLE areas. i’m from Sac,and don’t want SoCals butt ugly landscape.
Looks like another building scared to pass Wells Fargo for tallest title. Is there an Indian burial sight curse or something that prevents Sacramento from actually building a REAL skyscraper?