Truitt Park is a new City of Sacramento neighborhood park site within the R Street Corridor located at the southwest corner of the intersection of 19th and Q Streets. The design of this park was guided by a Master Plan the City Council Adopted on September 29, 2015. The Truitt Park Master Plan includes a community garden, shade trees, art, a small central plaza and off leash dog facilities for both small and large canines. Construction of the new park was completed in August 2017
Project Contact: Todd Leon – CADA Development Director – tleon@cada.org – 916-322-2114
Development Description: The proposed project is on the southwest corner of 14th and N Streets overlooking Capitol Park. It is an eight-story mixed-use development that includes 98 market-rate studio, one, two, and three bedroom rental and condominium units, 1,900 square feet of ground floor retail, and 67 parking stalls. The residential entrance/lobby and retail space are oriented along N Street. The 2nd floor terrace includes a pool with landscaping to provide shaded privacy for residents, lounge, and gym. The 8th floor terrace will include a seating area, outdoor BBQ and community table, native planting with built-in seating, and a shade structure.
Building Design: The massing and design marks the building as contemporary while referencing the surrounding context. The design emphasis is at the pedestrian level with transparent retail at the corner and residential lobby on the street to contribute vitality and energy to the street. The building’s upper portions are broken into visually distinctive forms to the existing building scales around them. Exterior building materials will consist of a smooth cement board and smooth stucco finish in neutral colors contrasted by balcony elements. The building provides a porcelain tile finish on the ground level.
CADA’s Affordable Housing Mandate: CADA’s mission is to help create a neighborhood for all, including all household types and incomes. CADA is mandated to preserve 25% of its housing stock (units that CADA manages or builds) as affordable units. Even though the Cypress will be a higher-end project, CADA’s mission is to help create a neighborhood for all, including all household types and incomes. CADA will continue to build or preserve at least 25% of its housing stock as affordable units, thus increasing both market-rate and affordable housing in the neighborhood.
Location: Southwest corner of 14th and N Street
Massing/Height: 8 stories
Unit Type Units
Studio 20
1 BR 51
2 BR 26
3BR 1
Unit Count: 98
Construction Type: 2-story concrete podium (Type IA) with 6 stories of wood frame (Type IIIA)
Acres: .44 acres
Retail Space: 1,900 SF
Parking: 67 spaces below-grade and on the ground floor with access from Neighbors Alley
Join CADA and the City of Sacramento Youth, Parks and Community Enrichment Department as we discuss the scheduled improvements, which will start in September and conclude by year’s
end.
Improvements include replacement of the benches, bleachers, backstop, scorer’s table, softball fences, pedestrian gates, bases, and the ballfield concrete walkways. The infield will be renovated and the field lighting will be upgraded. Landscaping along the left and right field fences will be replaced and improved, along with the landscaping along the 9th Street fence.
The meeting will take place on May 28th from 6-7pm in Roosevelt Park in the area between the basketball courts and the restrooms.
Located at 1615 9th Street between Q and P Streets, Roosevelt Park is home to a lighted softball field, two basketball courts and seasonal farmers markets. Used primarily for organized sports, this 3.05 acre park is in need of some basic repairs that will enhance the appeal of the neighborhood and provide a modernized space for its users. With the blessing of the City of Sacramento Parks Department with which CADA has a Memorandum of Understanding that allows CADA to partner with the City to renovate certain City parks, CADA retained Wood Rodgers landscape architect John Nicolaus to prepare preliminary drawings (“Conceptual Plan”) that address the renovation needs of the park. The Conceptual Plan is consistent with the existing master plan for the park.
With participation from the public, CADA has worked with local business owners, residents and stakeholders to achieve a cohesive, practical design that will withstand park use for years to come. See below for a chronology of work leading up to completion of the Conceptual Plan, including links to public comments, draft drawings, the final Conceptual Plan, a budget based on the Conceptual Plan, and a proposed Phasing Plan. The Conceptual Plan has been reviewed and approved by the City Parks Department.
Public Meetings 1 & 2:
Held on April 6th & May 26th of 2015, CADA, John Nicolaus of Wood Rodgers and public/private stakeholders gathered to discuss the renovation of the park. As a result of feedback from both public meetings, a draft conceptual plan for proposed improvements was created by Wood Rodgers, including a project budget and phasing plan for the renovations that can be implemented over a period of years.
Starting in September 2015, CADA, the City, and the Sacramento Kings, working with the Good Tidings Foundation, completed a series of improvements to the Roosevelt Park basketball courts. Interns working for the Kings in partnership with CADA, raised funds to commission and build two unique benches that were installed in November, just prior to a grant opening ceremony hosted by the Kings. Students from Pleasant Grove High School, from its Digital Media Academy (part of Elk Grove Unified School District) documented the restoration process from beginning to end and are preparing videos for use by the Kings and CADA. In March of 2016, CADA and the City of Sacramento selected landscape architecture firm Callander Associates to complete construction drawings for park improvements; we anticipate construction drawings to be completed by this time next year. Once CADA has priced the work necessary to begin construction, we plan to launch a fundraising campaign to help fund improvements to the park.
Having completed the Conceptual Plan and restoration of the basketball courts, CADA’s next goal is to complete construction drawings based on the conceptual plan. The purpose of the construction drawings is not to move immediately to construction of all of the proposed renovations, but to enable CADA to secure a contractor’s estimate of the cost to carry out the proposed renovations, set priorities for construction of the renovations based on the estimated costs and refine the preliminary phasing plan developed by Wood Rodgers. CADA will use the cost estimate and phasing plan to develop and then execute a fundraising campaign to secure funding for the first one or two phases of construction. We hope to complete all the renovations within 5 years, at most.
Updates:
Please check this page regularly for updates on the project. Also, to like our Facebook page and receive updates for Roosevelt Park, click here. CADA will continue to send out email updates to individuals who have attended the public workshops and provided contact information. For more information, contact Marc de la Vergne at mdelavergne@cada.org (opens in a new tab) or (916) 322-2114.
Timeline:
Goal 1: Finish conceptual plan, including suggested phasing plan and budget set by end of June – completed
Goal 2: Complete construction drawings by January 2017, price the work, and start fundraising.
Goal 3: Construction to begin in 2017, with phasing to be determined.
The senior apartments project was funded through the Rental Housing Construction Program of the State Department of Housing and Community Development. It was designed by Peter Clayberg and Caulifield of San Francisco, a 1982 AIA National Award recipient for their design of St. Mary’s Garden, a similar senior housing project in Oakland.
Location: 1421 15th Street, Sacramento
Completion date: April 20, 1984
Developer: CADA
Architect: Peters, Clayberg and Caulfield
General Contractor: S.L.N. Inc.
Acres: 24,700 sq. ft.
Total Units: 35
In 1984, Nielsen Wiese Architects relocated four structures from other parts of downtown Sacramento to an infill site at 14th and Q Streets. In 1988, Nielsen Wiese also rehabilitated a historic single family residential structure at 17th and O Streets and constructed two additional residential units on the rear portion of the property.
Location: 1616-26 14th Street, Sacramento
Location: 1500 15th Street, Sacramento
Rehabilitation designed by Paul Schmidt in 1984. The design is sensitive to the original 1920s character of the structure and Sacramento’s charm in the era as an urbane destination halfway between Lake Tahoe and San Francisco.
Location: 1424 P Street, Sacramento
In the difficult lending environment of 2009, CADA secured financing from Farmers and Merchants bank, a local community bank, for the purchase and much-needed rehabilitation of the Fremont-Wilshire Apartments at 15th and P Streets. A program was established at this property whereby studio units are being made affordable to single persons earning between 50% and 80% of the area-wide median income whose needs have grown due to the combined effect of the recession and the increase in Central City living expenses.
Designed originally by Michael Woldemarr Associates of San Pablo as a development project of Willard Trammel, CADA purchased the design, secured financing from the California Housing Finance Agency and constructed the project after Mr. Trammel withdrew for health reasons. Managed as mixed income apartments by CADA since 1988, the entry gate house includes public art, an abstract mural depicting events in the life of Sam Brannan, first promoter of the California Gold Rush.
Location: 1500 N Street, Sacramento
Completion Date: June 1, 1988
Developer: CADA
General Contractor: IBA Construction, Inc.
Acres: 44,600 sq. ft.
Dwelling Units per Acre: 39.07
Sources of Financing: CHFA, First Interstate Bank
Parking: 40 spaces
Total Units: 40
Designed by Herb Krumpe of Sacramento for Hank Fisher Properties. This complex provides efficiency studio apartments as an alternative to SRO facilities.
