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Real Estate

May 20, 2003

Massive Sacramento Project Takes Shape on Site That Spurred Transcontinental Railroad

BY JIM WASSERMAN Associated Press Writer One hundred and forty years after businessmen drove the first spike of the Transcontinental Railroad here, California developers are planning one of the nation's biggest, most innovative downtown expansions on the 240-acre cradle of American railroading's most storied accomplishment.

BY JIM WASSERMAN
Associated Press Writer

One hundred and forty years after businessmen drove the first spike of the Transcontinental Railroad here, California developers are planning one of the nation's biggest, most innovative downtown expansions on the 240-acre cradle of American railroading's most storied accomplishment.

On a littered, rusty landscape where laborers built trains for a railroad that opened the nation, designers of Minnesota's Mall of...

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