If your mental map of Old Sac still ends at a candy store, a saloon photo booth, and the sea lions under the Tower Bridge, it is out of date by about eighteen months. The district you may have written off as a field-trip destination is in the middle of the biggest tenant turnover and public-investment cycle it has seen in a generation, and most of the visible changes are landing between June and September of this year.
The thesis is simple. Old Sacramento is not a preserved tourist set piece anymore. It is a working neighborhood in transition, and this summer is when a resident can actually watch the transition happen.
The Paperworks Building is doing most of the work
The clearest signal of change is one building on 2nd Street.
