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Truckee Railyard Master Plan Vision (Source: City of Truckee)

Truckee’s Railyard Project

Published by on April 9, 2014 | 1 Response

While the City of Sacramento’s redevelopment plans for the 240-acre Downtown Railyards appear to be getting closer to reality, another railyard project is progressing 100 miles east along the route of the first transcontinental railroad in Downtown Truckee (CA).  The approximately 75-acre Truckee Railyard area, which is located on former Union Pacific property and the […]

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Downtown Davis (CA), a city downtown, serves the City of Davis and surrounding area and contains a mix of local financial, civic, cultural, retail, and residential uses

Types of Downtowns

Published by on March 12, 2012 | 1 Response

In my last entry (What is a Downtown?: Changing Definitions for Changing Times), I included my definition of downtowns, which attempted to draw out the similarities between traditional and non-traditional downtowns of different shapes and sizes. While developing a single definition of a downtown provides a way to distinguish downtowns from other commercial areas, identifying […]

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