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Spring is here! Large teams of
consultants together with our local, state and federal partners have
been hard at work at The Railyards to design the funded infrastructure
including the track relocation, roadways and utilities, and to obtain
additional infrastructure funding. This tremendous collective
effort will enable us to break ground at the site this Spring on
roadways and utilities infrastructure and bring much needed jobs to the
region!
Funding Update
We are excited to report that in March The
Railyards project was awarded the following infrastructure funds:
• $950,000 awarded to Sacramento
Intermodal Transit Facility (SITF) track
relocation project as
federal earmark from
Congress
• $5.26 million awarded by
California
Transportation Commission (CTC)
from Prop
1B Trade Corridors Improvement Fund
(TCIF) for the West
tunnel connecting Old
Sacramento to The Railyards
• $20
million awarded by SACOG from
federal stimulus for track
relocation.
Photo above:
Congresswoman Doris Matsui at
The Railyards leading the effort for federal funding.
We extend our deepest thanks and
appreciation to our region’s elected and business leaders, City and
SACOG staff, and project partners who work tirelessly to support the
project and bring infrastructure funding to The Railyards. Your
help has ensured that a new generation of Sacramentans will work at The
Railyards!
Proposition 1C Round 2 and Federal
Stimulus Efforts
We are busy preparing
our applications for Round 2 of the State of California Department of
Housing and Community Development (HCD) Infill Infrastructure Grant and
TOD Housing Programs. We were fortunate to secure HCD
infrastructure funding in Round 1 in 2008 and hope that we’ll be
successful this year as well. In addition, we are working closely
with the City of Sacramento and our regional elected leaders to pursue
additional federal stimulus dollars.
Infrastructure Update
We’re pleased to announce that the
following companies were qualified to serve as prime contractor and bid
for upcoming work at the Railyards on the 5th Street, 6th Street, 7th
Street Tunnel, and Railyards Boulevard Project.
• C.C. Myers, Inc.
• DeSilva Gates Construction
Company
• Ford Construction Company, Inc.
• Granite Construction Company
• Kiewit Pacific Company
• Lund Construction Company
• McGuire and Hester
• Sundt Construction, Inc.
• Teichert Construction
• Western Engineering Contractors,
Inc.
We went out to bid recently for rehab grading work on Railyards
Boulevard as part of the “5th Street, 6th Street, 7th Street Tunnel and
Railyards Boulevard Projects.” A pre-bid site walk was held on
March 23. Sealed bids for the rehab grading work must be received
by 3:00 pm on March 31, 2009. For more information, please visit
the Project Opportunities page. CLICK
HERE
SINA Corporation
We were pleased to be interviewed by and
tour Chinese diplomats from SINA Corporation at The Railyards
recently. SINA Corporation is the official information service
provider for China and Chinese communities worldwide. SINA.com
has over 280 million registered users. Sacramento is known as
"Yee Fow," the second city in Chinese American history. Links to
the SINA.com broadcasts and interviews with Suheil Totah and Richard
Rich follow. (The broadcast is in Chinese, but the interviews are
in English.)
Broadcast
#1
Broadcast
#2
Upcoming Events
• Railyards project presentation
and luncheon for the Sacramento Rainbow
Chamber of Commerce hosted by
Thomas Enterprises on March 26, 2009 at
11:30 a.m.
• Railyards project presentation
and luncheon hosted by the American Public
Works Association (APWA),
Sacramento Chapter, on April 3, 2009 at
11:45 a.m. at the
Buggy Whip restaurant, 2737 Fulton Avenue, Sacramento,
California.
• "I-80 Corridor Summit: A
Look Into the Future" hosted by the California
Regional Blueprint
Planning Program on April 22, 2009 from 9:30 a.m. to
2:00 p.m. at the
University of California, Davis, ARC Ballroom, 232 Activities
& Recreation
Center, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California. CLICK
HERE
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