Citrus Heights’ Sunrise Mall To Be Redeveloped Into Mixed-Use Site

CITRUS HEIGHTS (CBS13) — Citrus Heights volition beryllium getting a large caller redevelopment to regenerate the declining Sunrise Mall.

The 100-acre promenade spot is present unfastened for aboriginal mixed-use development.

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The metropolis assembly unanimously approved the Sunrise Tomorrow Specific Plan, which volition see caller housing, retail and bureau spaces, and hotels.

The metropolis worked with the mall’s owners, assemblage members, experts and elected officials to travel up with the program they anticipation volition diversify the city’s economy.

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“Sunrise Mall has agelong been successful decline, owed to changing retail trends,” said Chris Boyd, Interim City Manager. “We cognize our assemblage wants to spot the tract brought backmost to its erstwhile glory, and the adoption of our Specific Plan is simply a immense measurement successful that process. Unlocking the 100-acre promenade spot for aboriginal mixed-use development, arsenic opposed to keeping the tract each retail, means promenade owners present person the accidental to densify, diversify, and respire caller beingness into the bosom of our City.”

City officials said Citrus Heights is “98 percent built out,” meaning this program makes for 1 of the fewer opportunities for caller development.

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The metropolis said the CEO of Namdar Realty Group, the bulk proprietor of the mall, sent a missive successful enactment of the caller plan, reading, successful part:

“We greatly admit you and your staff’s diligent efforts to beryllium collaborative successful establishing the imaginativeness for the aboriginal of Sunrise Mall. We look guardant to advancing our plans for the site.”

CBS13 Staff