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Anatomy Of A Large Scale Redevelopment Deal

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
23 April 2004 - 5:00am

Jon Jerde is negotiating with the city of Sacramento to develop a 240-acre rail yard and Superfund site into a new neighborhood for the capital's downtown.

Large-scale urban redevelopment is a specialty for Mall of America architect Jon Jerde, who has designed a range of projects in the U.S., Japan and China... After nearly a century of industrial use, the former Sacramento rail yard, with its warehouses and disused tracks, is a severely contaminated brownfield. Union Pacific is now cleaning up the toxins from portions of the acreage.

Full Story: Can Jerde Juice Up Sacramento?
Source: The Slatin Report, April 22, 2004
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