Around the Region: City Hall Nears Completion; IKEA Breaks Ground

By Thomas York

Downtown

• Hensel Phelps is the general contractor for the $60-million Sacramento City Hall retrofit, which is scheduled to be completed this month. Fentress Bradburn is the exterior design architect; Gordon H. Chong & Partners of San Francisco is the renovation architect on the old building and interior design architect on the new building. David S. Taylor serves as development manager. This work entails a major renovation of the 95-year-old structure, and new construction of a 200,000-sq.-ft. building, landscaped central plaza and a 180-space garage.
  
  
• Three Fires, an investment group comprised of three American Indian tribes and local investor Anthony Giannoni announced plans for a $53 million, 15-story Marriott Residence Inn at 15th and L Street. The group has tabbed Seattle-based Johnson Braund Design Group. Cornice Development is providing construction management services. Giannoni said a general contractor has yet to be named.

Folsom

Sacramento-based Clark & Sullivan Construction is the general contractor for five new buildings (65,000 total sq. ft., $28 million in construction cost) at 4-year-old Folsom Lake Community College. New structures include a library, central plant, lecture hall and classroom and laboratory buildings.

Loomis-based C&C Construction Inc. is the general contractor for a $5 million cafeteria and bookstore, which should be finished this summer.

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Howard S. Wright Construction Co. is the general contractor for a second set of five buildings with a construction value of $15 million. The work includes 60,000 sq. ft. of classrooms, laboratories, lecture space, music rooms, labs and faculty offices. The phase will be finished in August 2006.

Roseville

The Wentz Group of San Carlos is the general contractor for the second of 10 buildings that will eventually make up the 37-acre Shea Center Roseville office development. The Sacramento Office of RMW Architecture is the designer. The $120 million project features 600,000 sq. ft. contained in two- and three-story concrete tilt-up structures.

Wentz is expected to have the shell for the second building completed in March.

West Sacramento

IKEA has broken ground on a 265,000-sq.-ft. store in the Riverpoint retail center. The store is expected to open before Thanksgiving. The architect for the project is Irvine-based Ware Malcomb. The general contractor is the Irvine office of Pepper Construction.