Another large mixed-use apartment building planned for busy Sacramento corridor

It was once little more than a quick way in and out of Sacramento’s central city. But 16th Street’s steady transformation to a housing and entertainment corridor continues.

Sacramento architects Vrilakas Groen are proposing a five-story mixed-use apartment building at the corner of 16th and V streets. The building would have 60 housing units and would replace a vacant lot.

Architectural drawings of the proposed project show a rooftop patio on the fourth floor and a retail space with large windows facing 16th Street.

The site is two blocks north of the W-X freeway and the apartment building “will help define a new ‘entry’ to the Central City,” according to a project narrative submitted with the city of Sacramento by Vrilakas Groen. The project would “establish a new framework for pedestrian walkability” in an otherwise auto-centric neighborhood.

Of the 60 apartments planned for the building, 17 would be studios. Another 36 would be one-bedroom units and seven would have two bedrooms. The largest units would be 1,156 square feet.

Crews are working on another major housing project a few blocks away on S Street between 15th and 16th streets. Vrilakas Groen has projects in the works with 47 apartments near 16th and S and another at the site of the former Thomas Jefferson Elementary School at 16th and N streets that would have more than 100 units.

The largest development in the pipeline is a proposed apartment building that would have 200 units in a seven-story building at 16th and J streets.

This story was originally published March 7, 2022 at 11:14 AM.