A Vital Part of an Urban Village in Midtown Sacramento
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento
 As an example of Sutter's holistic commitment to the healing arts and to help keep the Sutter District looking its best, SMCS commissioned local artist Juanishi Orosco to transform the plain fences around the empty lot at 28th and L Streets into colorful cultural and historic mural streetscapes. |
The Midtown medical campus is designed as the hub of a vibrant "urban village" in the heart of Sacramento’s Midtown neighborhood. Offering enhanced medical services and a more user-friendly medical campus, this project is also designed to complement the cultural, historic, commercial and special qualities of the Midtown neighborhood.
Several community partnerships are at the forefront of Sutter's renovation of its Midtown medical campus. We have worked closely with our residential neighbors, Trinity Cathedral Church, B Street Theatre, Pioneer Congregation Church, the Midtown Business Association, Native American tribes and other stakeholders to plan our project with substantial community input. As construction activities begin, we are continuing that dialogue.
Exciting community features of the project include:
- A partnership with the "B Street Theatre" to create a unique live two-stage theatre complex featuring the "Children's Theatre of California." The Anderson Lucchetti Women’s and Children’s Center envisions linking "healing arts" with the multi-cultural atmosphere of the neighborhood, and exploring opportunities to expand enjoyable and innovative care programs for young patients.
- Reflecting its goals to merge with the surrounding neighborhood, Sutter is working with LoftWorks, an innovative local developer, and other community partners to build 32 housing units along N Street between 26th and 27th Streets. LoftWorks designed the new housing with substantial input from our neighbors and community stakeholders to match the look and character of our Midtown neighborhood.
- A street-level restaurant with an outdoor plaza area is planned on the first floor of the new Sutter Medical Foundation Building on L Street across from Sutter’s Fort as part of the medical campus. The Medical Foundation Building will be “stepped back” from L Street to create a landscaped plaza, both adding to the greenery in the area and providing a buffer in front of the building.
- The neighborhood parking garage is designed to minimize traffic and parking impacts on the surrounding neighborhood and provide parking spaces to neighboring churches including the Trinity Cathedral and Pioneer Congregation Church, local businesses and cultural attractions as well as Sutter medical staff and personnel. This garage will be “wrapped” by shops and commercial space along N Street that offer neighborhood-serving retail services. Street access to shops and small businesses will be designed to preserve both pedestrian safety and provide clear “wayfinding” for vehicles to minimize traffic into the neighborhood. Overall, the community parking complex is designed to accommodate 1,100 vehicles and help minimize the use of on-street parking by those working and using hospital facilities.
- Sutter has worked with cultural and natural resources consulting firm Tremaine and Associates and local Native American Tribes the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, United Auburn Indian Community, Nashville-El Dorado Miwok Indians, and the Ione Band of Miwok Indians to conduct archeological monitoring around the excavation and construction activities and to plan for how to handle any artifacts or human remains found at construction sites.
- Sutter has agreements with neighborhood churches, including Trinity Cathedral and the Pioneer Congregational Church, to provide them with parking in the community parking structure, and a dedicated area for Pioneer Church to build a playground for their school children. Sutter has shielded Pioneer Church’s beautiful and historic stained glass windows with plexiglass to protect them from construction activities. Sutter’s collaboration with Trinity Cathedral during the environmental planning and approvals process has helped the congregation move forward with plans for a modern, larger cathedral and new facilities.
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