Status Check: Getting to the Other Side
Amy Seiwert back in Cincinnati after two-year run as Sacramento Ballet artistic director
Amy Seiwert’s term as the artistic director of the Sacramento Ballet ended in July, but she is continuing to create with dance companies in California and the Midwest.
Status Check: Unseen Heroes’ Pandemic Pivot
Sacramento-based events planning firm sees business dry up and rebounds with new endeavor
The Sacramento events planning firm pivoted to open the NeighborGood Market in central Elk Grove, a certified farmers market, in September.
Status Check: Culinerdy Cruzer Heads East
Food truck founders Keith and Amy Breedlove plan to open a restaurant in Oklahoma
Culinerdy Cruzer, which was part of Sacramento’s first wave of gourmet food trucks when it opened in 2014, is hitting the highway next month.
Status Check: Sacramento CIO Is Moving On
Social unrest spurs Sacramento Chief Innovation Officer Louis Stewart to depart city to build diversity pipeline at major tech firm
Louis Stewart has been the face of technological innovation efforts in Sacramento city government since 2017, leading initiatives such as the Sacramento Urban Technology Lab.
Status Check: Sacramento County Airport System
Sacramento County Airport System uses $49.9 million in CARES Act funding to offset traffic decline from COVID-19
The pandemic has upended normal operations for the four airports, but stakeholders see reasons for optimism.
Status Check: Sacramento’s Lavender Courtyard
The city’s first affordable housing project for LGBTQ older adults should break ground later this year
The vacant lot at 16th and F streets in Sacramento — the future site of Lavender Courtyard, the city’s first LGBTQ-friendly affordable housing for older adults — is still empty, but it won’t be for long.
Status Check: Residential Boom on Broadway
The conversion of former Tower Records, Books and Video site is one of several current housing projects in Sacramento’s Broadway corridor
For decades, Tower Records, Tower Books and Tower Videos defined the southeastern corner of 16th Street and Broadway in Sacramento. In their place could come a 53-unit apartment building — part of the next wave of development for Broadway.
Status Check: Health Care Hanging On
Local leaders say they’re undaunted by intense fiscal impacts from COVID-19
COVID-19 has presented significant challenges for health care. At least for the moment, though, local providers have been hanging tough and looking toward economic recovery.
Status Check: Cloudy Days for Pensions?
COVID-19 might lead to even fewer defined-benefit pensions in the private sector
It’s still early to fully gauge what effects the coronavirus economic shutdown will have on the pension landscape, but the preliminary outlook for certain parts of the industry, particularly with defined-benefit plans, isn’t encouraging.
Status Check: I-80 Lane Widening Project Presses On
Solano Transportation Authority moves forward on plans to widen 10 miles of roadway
The mayors of Fairfield and Vacaville and the Solano Transportation Authority are seeking $123 million in funding from the California Transportation Commission toward a project to widen 10 miles of Interstate 80. But with commute times down due to the coronavirus, it might be a tougher sell.