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One of the marquee pieces of Fulcrum Property’s development along West Sacramento’s formerly industrial waterfront is nearing completion.
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The firm announced Thursday that its pool and wellness project, “The Resort,” is open, adjacent to the new office building where Fulcrum is now headquartered. A connected, 260-unit apartment complex called “Pierside” is pre-leasing, ahead of a planned opening at the beginning of October.
The buildings on Riverfront Street, near West Sacramento’s ballpark and adjacent to a brewery, are envisioned as a central place for Bridge District residents to gather and take advantage of amenities such as a pool, indoor and outdoor lounge areas, a gym, outdoor showers, a wellness area and fire pits.
“I’m going to call it one of the most premium projects in the region,” Fulcrum President Randy Koss said Thursday.
Fulcrum began buying property in the Bridge District in 2004, when the area was largely industrial warehouses. During construction, workers ran into concrete foundations from former rice siloes, Koss said.
“Where we are in the Resort and Pierside, now, is the culmination of over 20 years of planning, dating back to the early 2000s and even before that, when this was an old, industrial district,” Koss said.
There are now five other multifamily complexes in the district and 72 single-family homes, according to Fulcrum.
Fulcrum owns still more undeveloped land in the district, and the firm’s chairman, Mark Friedman, is leading an effort to sell West Sacramento as a host city for a Major League Baseball expansion team. Earlier this year, Friedman and local officials announced they had assembled $800 million in land and private commitments. They estimated they could secure $1 billion in public investment from the city and released renderings envisioning a ballpark in the middle of the Bridge District.
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The upper-level patio at Pierside is dotted with pergolas, fire pits and planter boxes. There was a movie viewing area, and a view over the top of the curved brewery roof to the Tower Bridge, the Ziggurat and the stadium lights and scoreboard at Sutter Health Park. The deck overlooks the Sacramento River to the east, and the bike trail that runs for miles along the waterfront.
With its height, the project takes advantage of the river and its views, unlike many parts of the region, where homes and buildings are set back from levees, Koss said.
“This is like the first major part of the Bridge District that starts to feel urban,” Koss said.
Studios in Pierside will start at around $1,900 monthly, plus $85 for entrance to the Resort and $150 for on-site parking.
The Resort can be accessed by some other residences in the Bridge District that have signed on to participate. Fulcrum declined to share the membership rate for non-Pierside residents.
The office and resort portion of the development opened in June. Fulcrum has yet to fill the ground-floor retail space there, but Koss said the firm is intent on finding tenants as unique as the brewery next-door, and the wine bar, Franquette. The space will likely be occupied by restaurants and possibly a market.
“When you build districts like this,” Koss said, “you really need an amenity that sets you apart.”
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