Jerde's Innovative Historic Rail Infill Project

A huge development in the center of Sacramento will include 3,000 homes and acres of shopping at the site of a historic rail yard.

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April 29, 2003, 8:00 AM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"One hundred forty years after businessmen drove the first spike of the Transcontinental Railroad here and marked a famous chapter in America's push to expand, California developers plan to build at the same site one of the nation's biggest and most innovative downtown projects... Real estate brokers and Sacramento city officials call the development one of the largest "infill" projects -- filling in a blighted, vacant part of a central city -- in the United States."

Thanks to ArchNewsNow.com

FULL STORY: Sacramento Project Planned at Site of Historic Rail Yard

Monday, April 28, 2003 in The Los Angeles Times

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