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Construction & development
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DEVELOPMENT SPOTLIGHT:
AGGIE SQUARE
The long-awaited UC Davis development in
Sacramento anticipates breaking ground in 2021
BYJENNIFER VON GELDERN
The development known as Aggie Square
at UC Davis’ Sacramento campus has the
potential to benefit the university, the
City of Sacramento and the entire region.
This collaborative project is planned to be
a mixed-use scientific, educational and
social hub. It will showcase the specialty of
its developer partner, Wexford Science &
Technology, known for its partnership with
major universities and academic medical
centers around the nation in a development
model it calls a knowledge community.
According to Wexford, a knowledge
community is a mixed-use community
using discovery, innovation and entrepreneurial
activity to create visible outcomes of
economic growth, new jobs and community
transformation. The model can be lever-
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