Proposed restaurant near Executive Airport has nose of 747 jet sticking out of it
A developer is proposing building a restaurant with a 747 jet nose sticking out of the front of the building across Freeport Boulevard from Executive Airport.
The project proposal includes a Sacramento Valley Ambulance Inc. dispatch facility in a building behind the combination restaurant and fish market.
The site, 5936 Freeport Blvd., notably is a block from the site of the 1972 Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour tragedy where 22 people were killed and 28 injured when a jet taking off from the airport careened into the restaurant. That building is now part of the city police and fire headquarters.
The proposed hangar-style architecture, which includes an interior “fuselage” shaped seating area, is designed to connect the restaurant thematically to the historic airfield across the street, according to planning documents filed with the city. The intent is to depict a plane nose protruding from a hangar.
A spokesman for the developer said he is aware of the Farrell’s crash, but doesn’t associate the project’s architecture with that incident.
This story was originally published January 13, 2020 at 11:05 AM.