Sacramento Moustache 5K

The only run out there dedicated to the mustachioed...and those who want to be. Bring your mustache--real or fake--to Sutter's Landing by 4pm this coming Saturday, November 16 for the Sacramento Moustache Run.

Along the 5K route next to the American River and through Sutter's Landing Park, you will have to do your best to outrun an old-fashioned barber out to give you a clean shave. Get your mustache safely across the finish line, and you're already a winner. But with this run you have the additional reward of the Mo For Your Bro after party, complete with live music, wine, beer, food trucks and, of course, mustache care stations and best mustache contests.

Part of the runs' proceeds will go to the American Cancer Society, while proceeds from the after party will go to the Active 20-30 Club of Greater Sacramento #1032. For more information and to register, do as the mustache commands and go to sacramentomoustacherun.com.

MENA Community Meeting including Sutter Park!

This Wednesday, October 3^rd will be a McKinley East Sacramento Neighborhood Association (MENA) Community Meeting. It will start at 6:30pm at the McKinley Park Library at 601 Alhambra Blvd.

On the agenda is:

Councilman Steve Cohn discussing the rebuilding efforts of the McKinley Park playground that was partially destroyed by fire.

Stonebridge Properties will be presenting their proposal for Sutter Park at the Sutter Memorial Hospital site. Come and get a good look at displays of the proposed development and hear about the results of previous community meetings.

Ed Cox and Deb Newton of SABA (Sacramento Area Bike Advocates) will talk about the speed on H Street, traffic counts and control efforts recently implemented.

The Greek Anunciation Church will be presenting their planned project and discussing their efforts to enhance present church facilities and provide a visual linkage with McKinley Park.

Friends of East Sacramento will be providing an update on the McKinley Park Rose Garden renovation and status of the Clunie Community Center management transition to their organization.

The Sacramento Police Department and EASTSACWATCH will provide an update on incident reports and community crime fighting efforts.

If you live in East Sac but aren't already a meeting of MENA, you should join because you will get all the details on the neighborhood emailed directly to you!

Sutter Park Neighborhood

2014 can’t come soon enough for anyone watching and waiting for the amazing transformation that is going to take place in the Sutter Park Neighborhood. Living in East Sac I have been hearing about this change for a couple years now and as a very active Realtor in my neighborhood I’m following this development closely.

In a few years we will have 100 to 125 new homes, a nice little park and a little bit of neighborhood retail where the Sutter Memorial Hospital currently sits. Keep in mind that the demolition of the old hospital isn’t projected to happen until 2014 and then it will take 2-3 more years to completely build out the project. The soonest that you might see a new home in there would probably be 2015…

Here is the link to the official site of the development: http://sutterparkneighborhood.com/

It is full of great information and can keep you busy reading for quite some time.

I will continue to follow the project and post in my blog, and as soon as there is any information about new homes I’ll have it!

Sutter Memorial Hospital Plans

I went to the East Sac Chamber of Commerce breakfast meeting last week. There was an update about the plans for the site of the old Sutter Memorial Hospital in the North East corner of East Sac.

The have just submitted to the city for review a plan for putting in 100-125 new homes on this site. It should take 12-18 months for environmental approval and they probably won’t be able to start any real work on the new homes until 2015.

The new site is tentatively being called Sutter Park Neighborhood. Here is the current proposed site plan. As soon as I can get my hands on a better picture of it, I will upload it.