
Higher Calling: From Abstract to Reality
Team of three students contributed to Cosumnes River College’s Winn Center
In 2009, CRC partnered with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Sacramento chapter to participate in the Natural Talent Design Competition. Entrants were required to design a 36,000-square-foot building known as the Winn Center.

The New Normal
Sacramento businesses face challenges adapting to COVID-19 landscape
Despite the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus still soaring around California and throughout the country, state and local governments have begun loosening restrictions on businesses. Here’s how businesses are adjusting.

Main Street: A New Chapter
Family-owned bookstore adjusts to limitations of state’s coronavirus order
Crawford’s Books owner Sue Richards now offers curbside pickup at her store on Freeport Boulevard in the Hollywood Park neighborhood of Sacramento.

Minding the Market
The real estate industry is adjusting to uncertain times, but there’s no reason to panic
Let’s talk about the real estate market amid this crisis. There already have been changes, and we can expect more changes in the months ahead.

Building On
Wendy Cohen of Kitchell talks about the construction firm’s projects underway in Sacramento
Construction is one industry that has continued through shelter-in-place orders. Comstock’s spoke with Wendy Cohen, vice president of operations for the construction firm Kitchell, to learn how the industry has been impacted by the coronavirus and the role it can play in the recovery.

Holding Pattern
Variety of local businesses shuttered by COVID-19 await reopening
Comstock’s has been following four businesses that have been helping to drive the resurgence of Sacramento’s central city in recent years. Here’s how they’re faring a month into the shutdown.

The Might of Medicine
With around 150,000 jobs, a robust provider marketplace and a slew of projects underway, health care helps define the greater Sacramento region
Though service gaps and challenges remain, health care could eventually become the Sacramento region’s calling card.

Status Check: I-80 Lane Widening Project Presses On
Solano Transportation Authority moves forward on plans to widen 10 miles of roadway
The mayors of Fairfield and Vacaville and the Solano Transportation Authority are seeking $123 million in funding from the California Transportation Commission toward a project to widen 10 miles of Interstate 80. But with commute times down due to the coronavirus, it might be a tougher sell.

Retail Projects in the Works for West Roseville
Residents in fast-developing part of south Placer County have been underserved
As west Roseville’s residential communities have rapidly developed in recent years, spreading farther toward the western border of Placer County, there have been few commercial amenities while developers have waited for a critical mass of population that could support new shopping centers.

Podcast: Coronavirus and the Housing Crisis
On this episode of “Gimme Shelter: The California Housing Crisis,” CalMatters’ Matt Levin and the Los Angeles Times’ Liam Dillon discuss how the state’s housing woes are complicating California’s response to the virus, from homelessness to evictions.