The Railyards development will connect three streets to N. B Street, west of 7th St. [see top of map]. The streets that will connect to No. B St. are, in order, from left to right: 5th, Judah, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Sts. [Note that 11th St.is misidentified on the map as 16th St.] Those of us who stay at the Union Gospel Mission can just look out from the grass in front of the mission to see “encroaching development” moving in to the seemingly-rural setting where the mission is. A road — an extention of Sequoia Pacific Blvd. — leading north to Richards Boulevard from where the mission is is in final stages of construction. And along that short road the new modular Greyhound Bus station for the metropolis of Sacramento is about to begin to be put up. Meantime, the Railyard development will bring encroaching urbanity in from the south. It opens several questions, beginning with the broad interrogate What's to become of the mission?...
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