A rural area is about to change as work begins to build the Braden community in Sacramento County. Braden, known as Cordova Hills up until this year, has been in the planning stages for nearly two decades.
“From 2013 to today, it has gone through various approvals, ideation sessions, changes and pivot, and a lot of it driven with where our economy, where our residential, where things should live,” said Rachel Bardis, chief operating officer of Somers West.
The project will be located in an unincorporated area of Sacramento County and includes plans to improve the two-lane Grant Line Road for better access to the community.
“The vision is extremely strong with this project, but there are issues to work out. Obviously, we need to bring infrastructure out here. We have a very large preserve through the middle which will be an amenity both for the residents of the preserve as well as the future residents of the homes here” Sacramento County Deputy CEO, Dave Defanti.
The project will have 8,000 housing units in its 2,600-acre community, which will also host a K-8 school, 75 miles of trails and bike lanes, an amphitheater, and an opportunity for affordable housing on-site.
The first phase of the project includes a Town Center and is expected to be completed by 2026, with the first move-ins also anticipated for that year.
Braden is developer-funded which means that they didn’t receive grants or seed money for the site.
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