The Hub: Sacramento State Research Park

Mold-breaking campus planning can eliminate traditional silos by combining community colleges, state colleges, universities, and even high schools, all on one campus, along with independent private research and manufacturing. Basically, layering an innovation district on top of a campus, allowing students to study towards real-world skills training rather than just degrees.

The Hub is the first public-private partnership to create an off-campus innovation district on land owned by California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State). The Hub Master Plan includes a complete campus design for the project and its core users, including the California Mobility Center (future mobility research and prototyping facility) and the California Department of Justice (new national criminalistics institute). In addition to establishing programming, architecture, and design components, the Master Plan also includes an organizational framework and partnership structure to ensure the project can be constructed in a P3 format and has an operational structure to ensure all users are supported for decades to come.

The world-class research, technology, forensic science and academic facility is incubating new forms of mobility, promoting scientific discoveries, spurring economic growth and new jobs for the local community, and anchoring a larger Sacramento Center for Innovation.