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The Rancho Cordova City Council approved an additional $40,000 in funding for a traffic analysis of the future downtown arena project, set to bring arena soccer and other entertainment to the city.
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The 10,000-seat venue, with 7,500 fixed seats, is planned for the corner of Kilgore Road and Trade Center Drive. It is expected to become home to the Sacramento area’s two Major Arena Soccer League teams and could later expand to include housing, hotels, retail, restaurants, a card room and the city’s first movie theater and bowling alley.
At its meeting Monday, the City Council unanimously approved an amendment to its October 2025 contract with DKS Associates Inc. for traffic analysis around the future arena, bringing the total amount paid to the engineering company from $88,000 to $128,000, according to staff reports. The item was on the meeting’s consent calendar.
The amendment was needed because of the “high level of complexity of the project review,” according to a request from DKS Associates included in city staff reports.
The additional money will come from the city’s general fund, according to the staff report.
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Joshua Wood, a local developer and part of the ownership group behind the project, told The Sacramento Bee on Monday that “lots of progress” was being made, with the next step being approval by the city’s Planning Commission. Wood said updates on a groundbreaking date would come soon and noted in late May that the privately funded project would break ground this summer.
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The most recent agreement reported by The Bee proposes shared future revenue streams, development impact fee and building permit fee waivers, and the dedication of a portion of a 13-acre city-owned parcel, which Kniestedt previously said has an estimated value of $6.8 million. Wood previously said the arena would generate new tax revenue, a portion of which would be returned to the project.
The city waived $940,000 in fees for the project, covering reviews for the design, infrastructure and building plans; a CEQA consultant review; zoning check fees; a grading permit; and city attorney’s fees to draft the development agreement, according to previous Bee reporting.
Mayor Garrett Gatewood told The Bee in February that the arena was one of the city’s “trademark most important projects” because it was the “first chance to have actual full entertainment” for residents, as well as bringing people from other areas of capital region to the city.
“We’re now on the map,” Gatewood said. “We’re not a city that you’ve never heard of before.”
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