16th Street Corridor and the Broadway Corridor (Land Park)

[shelato]

Fair enough.

[Mr. Opinionated]

Originally Posted by NickB1967

Three reasons:
1. Road access improves commerce opportunities. It would also open up Broadway to West Sacramento.
2. "Street life" isn't going to happen on Broadway--it isn't J street, and "The Grid" ends there. Land Park to the south has single family homes rather than stacked condominiums or apartments.
3. It is utterly asinine that an urban area built on 3 sides of 2 rivers has so few crossings of said rivers. For example, why does traffic between Natomas and downtown have to get on a freeway (meant for thru traffic)? Why is only now a bridge across the American River and an extension of Truxel Road being contemplated? And why is there no American River crossing between Watt and Sunrise? it is truly a mess.

It isn't so much that Sacramento needs many more roads, so much as it is that Sacramento needs a few more roads that connect neighborhoods and bridge rivers.

Man... I heartily agree with this logic.

[TruthTeller1954]

The former Clarion Hotel went out of business in 2012. It has been a ghostly hulking presence at the corner of 16th and H for waaaaaay to long. The entire building is covered completely in greenery, not ivy but some sort of vining plant. When the Clarion was open for vusiness it looked pretty and brightened up the bleakness of 16th and H Street but now it looks like a ghost town bldg covered in rambling green vines.

The Holiday Inn owns the property and corporate decided to shut the Clarion Hotel down and sell the property instead of remodeling. I spent a weekend at the Clarion a few months before it went out of business. Very 1960s architecture and in dire need of interior remodeling but the interior rooms faced a lovely Japanese Zen garden with bonsai trees and sand garden. In it's prime the Clarion Hotel was lovely but it slunk into seedy-ness.

First it was proposed to be a parking lot (UGH!) And then a geriatric residential center for Alzheimer's inpatients but nobody in the neighborhood and City Council person Steve Hansen was dead set against that.

I read in the Bee last week that it will be remodeled into a senior citizen affordable housing apartment bldg and an arts complex. That is a terrific idea because there is NO affordable housing in Downtown or Midtown area.

[wburg]

The plan for the Clarion is not to remodel but to demolish and build a new building. The business model sounds like the WAL project on R Street but without the historic building, and aiming at artistic seniors rather than artistic young people. Not sure if it will be affordable or not, haven't heard about them applying for any LIHTC, but that would be a positive if they did. I would have liked to see the Mansion Inn turned into a 1960s-retro boutique hotel, but more housing is also a good, better than a parking lot by far.

[shelato]

I had a neighborhood who in college worked as a bellhop at the then Mansion Inn. At that time, it was one of the nicer hotels in downtown Sacramento, he said that during the late 1970's and early 1980's when he worked there often the Music Circus would bring in minor celebrities to headline it shows. So he met Gordon Jump who played Mr. Carlson on WKRP and Henry Winkler who played the Fonz on Happy Days.