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27-552: The current Director of CALFED is Joe Grindstaff . The department is located along Capitol Mall in Sacramento . CALFED's responsibilities for the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta include: Various federal and state agencies fall into CALFED's coordination authority. These agencies include: In addition to the state and federal agencies, nearly 60 Native American tribes also participate in

54-463: A 2-level penthouse restaurant or meeting facility. The structure has a steel frame and features a granite curtain wall with stone-on-precast and stone-on-truss panels on the exterior. The building, opened for business and welcomed its first tenant on May 26, 2009. At the eastern terminus of the Capitol Mall, the landmark California State Capitol stands. It and the surrounding grounds contain

81-600: A focal point for visitors to the Capitol as they arrived at the Central Pacific Railroad station or the docks via riverboat in Old Sacramento . The advent of the automobile and the new Legislative Route 6 leading to the Capitol further emphasized how the appearance of the Capitol from the riverfront reflected California's fortunes, as urban planning advocate Charles Mulford Robinson petitioned

108-486: A new, larger bridge to replace the old M Street railroad bridge over the river with a combination rail and automobile bridge that would become the Sacramento's iconic Tower Bridge , forming a grand western gateway to the mall. Mall proposals were placed on the backburner during the wars, and despite the fact much of Sacramento's Japantown was decimated by the evacuation and incarceration of Japanese Americans during

135-544: A performance orientation." Due to its various coordination agencies and priorities, the LAO declared that "the program had strayed from its original focus of resolving conflicts among water-related interests in the Delta, by expanding into what looked like a statewide water management program, resulting in substantial overlap with the mission and responsibilities of [the] California Department of Water Resources." The LAO recommended to

162-458: A popular restaurant; and Price Waterhouse Coopers , a major tenant. 500 Capitol Mall , also known as the ' BMO Tower' (formerly the ' Bank of the West Tower'), is a 25-story 433,508-square-foot (40,274.2 m ) high-rise on Capitol Mall in downtown Sacramento with a 10-level, 800 stall parking garage. The building consists of a 5-story atrium/lobby, ground floor retail, office space, and

189-527: A special ceremony in what was publicized as a “slum clearance project,” and opening those parcels up to private investment compatible with the State's mall concept. By 1961, the initial plan to create a 52 foot grassy median separating 2 wide streets with an 8 footwide landscape setback planted with Linden trees for a total of 180 feet between the buildings north and south of the Mall was underway. J. W. Wilson from

216-432: A state in 1850, San Jose , Vallejo , and Benicia each briefly served as the state Capitol until the legislature decided Sacramento best suited their needs for the state in 1854. Their initial allocation for the construction of the dedicated Capitol building in 1860 only provided for a 4 block parcel of land bordered by L, N, 10th, and 12th streets. Previously just another minor lettered street, M Street suddenly became

243-600: A watershed event for the City Beautiful Movement, and went on to write the first guide to city planning in 1901, titled The Improvement of Towns and Cities . In 1909, he developed the original plans for the Fort Wayne Park and Boulevard System in Fort Wayne, Indiana . He was hired in 1910 to review the city design and planning of St. Joseph, Missouri . Fully half of his report dealt with

270-469: A writer who became famous as a pioneering urban planning theorist. He has the greatest influence as a missionary for urban beautification. He was the first Professor for Civic Design at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , which was only one of two universities offering courses in urban planning at the time, the other being Harvard . Robinson wrote "The Fair as a Spectacle" in 1893, an illustrated description of Chicago's World Columbian Exposition,

297-710: Is located near the iconic Tower Bridge, between the Sacramento River and the Mall's crossing over Interstate 5 . Located at 100 Capitol Mall near the Tower Bridge, the 242 room ' Embassy Suites Sacramento - Riverfront Promenade' is a hotel popular with tourists, due to its proximity to Old Town in the Old Sacramento State Historic Park and the Riverfront Promenade park along the Sacramento River. Located at

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324-637: The California State Capitol Museum . The Beaux-Arts and Neoclassical style building with dome was under construction from 1860 to 1874. The capitol and grounds are a California Historical Landmark , a National Historic Landmark District, and on the National Register of Historic Places in Sacramento County, California . Sacramento Regional Transit District —RT serves public transport to/from and along

351-600: The ' Wells Fargo Center ' is currently the tallest building in Sacramento. It is 429 feet (131 m) high, and has 33 stories, with 29 above the ground floor lobby and 3 below. The skyscraper won the BOMA Building of the Year award in 1994. A museum is located in the lobby, dedicated to the history of Wells Fargo Bank in the Sacramento area. Located within the Wells Fargo Center: Il Fornaio ,

378-399: The Capitol Mall operated by RT, with service between 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. daily. The bus fleet is powered by compressed natural gas . The entire route is in Sacramento , Sacramento County . This California road–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Charles Mulford Robinson Charles Mulford Robinson (1869–1917) was a journalist and

405-466: The Capitol Mall. Due to Sacramento's street grid system downtown, which predates the construction of the Capitol, Capitol Mall was once known as M Street . It was renamed Capitol Avenue by Governor C. C. Young in 1928. The Capitol Mall was previously part of State Route 275 , but was relinquished to the city in January 2006. Following California's cession by Mexico and entry into the union as

432-489: The Capitol Mall. RT serves the city of Sacramento, and much of the northern portion of Sacramento County . RT has two light rail stops located on the Capitol Mall. The 7th & Capitol Stop is only for southbound trains, while the 8th & Capitol Stop is only for northbound trains. The two stops serve all three RT light rail routes: the Gold Line , Blue Line , and Green Line . There are also bus stops located on

459-475: The Capitol all the way down to the river in 1947, recommending a 40 foot building setback from Capitol Avenue . The Sacramento Redevelopment Agency (SRA) was created in 1950 to deal with the challenge of enforcing the State's wishes, acquiring approximately 15 square blocks for the Capitol Mall Project, and publicly demolishing an 1870's private home acquired through eminent domain by the agency in

486-477: The Legislature and for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to reform CALFED by establishing realistic budget reviews and create more confined responsibilities that would not overlap into other departments. Capitol Mall The Capitol Mall or Capitol Mall Boulevard is a major street and landscaped parkway in the state capital city of Sacramento , California . Formerly known as M Street , it connects

513-482: The State Division of Highways was assigned as the design engineer for the project with Donald Van Riper as the landscape architect. Unfortunately, an earlier plan to include a round-about encircling a monument or obelisk on the western end of The Mall was abandoned due to the unanticipated construction of Interstate 5 to run along the river through the city, and deliberately built below grade so not to interrupt

540-702: The city and the state to emulate Pierre L’Enfant 's ideals for the National Mall in Washington, D.C. in 1907. Although the city acquired the two additional blocks west of the Capitol for the construction of State Office Building No. 1 and the Library and Courts Building in 1913, the area between 9th street and the river continued to be developed with residential, commercial, and community properties, including Sacramento's historic Japantown , which spanned M street at 4th street from K to P streets, clogging

567-824: The city of West Sacramento in Yolo County to Downtown Sacramento . Capitol Mall begins at the eastern approach to the Tower Bridge , and runs east to the California State Capitol . Capitol Mall begins at the eastern end of Tower Bridge , which crosses the Sacramento River to West Sacramento . It runs eastward past the Riverfront Promenade park, and over the Interstate 5 until the California State Capitol building. Some of Sacramento's major businesses and law firms are located on

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594-576: The clear line of sight between the Capitol and the Tower Bridge. Both the mall and the interstate would be completed by 1965 and aesthetically remains today much as it did then. Landmarks on the Capitol Mall, from the west (Tower Bridge and Sacramento River) to the east (California State Capitol), include: Located at 1 Capitol Mall, Drexel University Sacramento is the California campus of renowned Drexel University , based in Philadelphia. It

621-683: The gateway to downtown, the busy intersection of 3rd Street and Capitol Mall, 300 Capitol Mall stands 18 stories high with 383,238 square feet of rentable area. The tower was designed by Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall (DMJM) and completed in 1984. 301 Capitol Mall is the site of the former home of the Sacramento Union newspaper. Construction began here in 2006 for The Towers on Capitol Mall I & II , two planned 53-story and massive 615 feet (187 m) mixed-use towers. The project had been on hold since January 2007 due to liens being filed against developer. Located at 400 Capitol Mall,

648-399: The post war era jumpstarted the city's attention towards finally creating the Mall, if only to give government the excuse to seize the overcrowed ethnic ghettos through eminent domain , such as what was then called Sacramento's "West End" filled with minorities with no place else to go. Sacramento's city council approved a plan to acquire land and create a Civic Improvement District around

675-760: The program's activity coordination. In February 2006, the California Legislative Analyst's Office , or LAO, published criticisms of the CALFED Program during its annual budget review, citing sources from the California State Legislature and various independent review panels. The LAO report indicated that CALFED had "[failed] to develop a viable long-term finance plan (as directed by the Legislature)," as well as its "lack of focus and priorities," and "lack of

702-625: The view of the Capitol such that the noted city planner Werner Hegemann wrote, "that even walking on the sidewalks of “M” street the Capitol Building cannot be seen," and that clearing such, "is of the greatest importance for the future of Sacramento." Governor C. C. Young renewed efforts for the widening of M Street into a grand mall to create “the Pennsylvania Avenue of California” in 1929. He also advocated for renaming M Street as Capitol Avenue , and building

729-459: The war, California 's population doubled due to its strong wartime defense industry production, many who moved into the vacated Japanese areas, especially those who were prohibited from finding housing elsewhere else due to racial housing covenants , often far exceeding the capacity for those properties as affluent residents moved out to the growing suburburan migration of the 1950s. That migration and federal investment in urban renewal during

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