Stockton Moves to Restore Historic City Core

Two other projects are contributing to Stockton's redevelopment - the restoration of the historic Hotel Stockton and San Joaquin Regional Transit District's Downtown Transit Center, both located along El Dorado Street.

The Hotel Stockton, built in 1910 and named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, wound up in disrepair in the 1990s and subsequently the city negotiated a public/private collaboration to restore and convert the building into a mixed-use project.

The city purchased the building in 1999.

The six-story, 145,000-sq.-ft. structure now features 156 affordable rentals and ground-floor retail space.

Randy Paragary's Sacramento-based restaurant group was planning to open a dining establishment this year in the building. The restaurant will face El Dorado Street.

CFY Development of Sacramento acted as the general contractor on the $30 million project as well as a general partner of investors. Also contributing to the effort was Applied Architecture of Sacramento, Miayamoto International of Stockton as structural engineers, and Historical Environment Consultants of Carmichael as historic consultants.

Meanwhile, phase one of the Downtown Transit Center, the new, expanded bus passenger boarding area, was completed earlier this year.

Phase two involves the renovation of three historic building facades with new construction. The building's front elevation combines the façades from three century-old buildings on the west (the "Hart & Thrift" and "Bower" Buildings) and east (the "Delta" Building) ends of the building. The center elevation and all of the building behind the facades will be new construction.

The ground floor of the new facility will be a passenger concourse, and also contain some RTD offices, a boardroom and 2,100 sq. ft. of retail. The second floor will be RTD offices.

Stockton-based F+H Construction is the general contractor.

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