Enterprise: University Mall redevelopment moving forward

Plans for a major transformation of University Mall are moving forward.

Those plans entail the demolition of the entire mall on Russell Boulevard — except for Trader Joe’s — to be replaced by a mixed-use development of 264 multi-family residential units above more than 136,000 square feet of retail space, in addition to Trader Joe’s. Four levels of residential housing would be built over the retail space and a three-level parking structure.

Currently, University Mall is home to a mix of restaurants, retailers and office space, including Forever 21, Cost Plus World Market and The Graduate restaurant and sports bar, and Brixmor hopes to retain as many of them as possible, the company said.

Some of those businesses have a long history at the site, particularly The Graduate, which has been there since the 1970s.

The mall itself opened in 1966 and has seen periodic changes over the years, including a renovation in 1999.

The mall previously has been home to a Safeway, Harvest Market and Lawrence’s and Gottschalk’s department stores, as well as a Payless, Wherehouse and Rite Aid.

https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/university-mall-redevelopment-moving-forward/

The West Coast Conference may be as good as a whole in a long time. They are 50-24 so far including #1 Gonzaga 7-0, Loyola Marymount 8-0 and USF 7-0. Sometimes I envy Pacific having left the Big West to play in the WCC...

I'm bringing a couple who have been close friends for a very long time. Jim, played soccer for Will Lotter back in the day. If I can get them to come over early maybe we'll wander by and say hello. I'll be the old guy with a white beard and a pretty woman by my side...probably describes quite a few of us nowadays though!

Daniel Fells was a beast. It was hard to believe that we had a player of his size, speed and talent at the D2 level. Amazing!

We've always been especially known for QB's and WR's and now we're becoming a TE destination too.

I think we still have to wait and see how good this team might become. The loss to Sac State was the low point of the season so far. Then they showed they can be pretty good in the loss to Indiana and the team seems to be playing better as a cohesive unit on both ends of the floor since then. We shot the ball much better last night but we also missed way too many wide open 3's.

The next few games are going to be very telling as to whether or not this upswing is here to stay or not. With road games at Northern Illinois, USC, Arizona and undefeated Loyola Marymount coming up it's not going to be easy to get many wins and we could easily be 4-10 entering conference play. I hope that won't be the case and they'll surprise a few of these good teams.

Then we open conference play at Irvine and the Anteaters are the cream of the crop in the Big West. We'll be thoroughly battle tested by then and we won't be intimidated by anyone in the conference after all the tough teams we've already played. Irvine and Santa Barbara are clearly the top teams in the Big West so far but, as usual in this conference, I expect it will be a dogfight for the title and we might just surprise folks if we continue to get better.

Les played a lot of combinations tonight and most everyone contributed. TJ is so much fun to watch. He's so quick and really controls the floor when he has the ball. Fuller continues to get better and I thought Siler played pretty well for the minutes he got. Neufeld had some nice moves in the paint but isn't as agile a defender as Goode. Gonzalez had an off night and AJ's shot was not dropping again and we missed an awful lot of wide open 3's tonight.

Our ball movement on offense was really good and I thought our defense was pretty consistent and we forced 19 TO's. One thing for sure with Les is that if you make a defensive mistake or two, you are most likely coming out of the game.

Up next is a tough road game at Northern Illinois. I hope we can finally get a road W but we'll need to play even better than we did tonight for that to happen agains the Huskies.

Nice to see the Ags shooting 56%. TJ doing his thing and Fuller getting better all the time. AJ missing badly though. Need to come out strong and stretch the lead in the second half. Small crowd.

I forgot about Gonzalez. He's a solid competitor and we need him to be able to shoot from the outside. It seems like we have enough players who are able to knock down perimeter shots so, to be shooting so poorly, was surprising.

Good points. Siler is a streaky shooter and Les gives him the green light to continue gunning even when his shot is not falling. He has struggled to score at a good percentage this year. We need him to come around offensively and we haven't seen much of that at all so far this year. Les keeps him on the floor even when he's cold because he's such a hard-nosed competitor and is fearless regardless of the situation in the game.

I think we need to get significant contributions from Caleb Fuller and Matt Neufeld for this team to become a contender in the conference. We need some offfensive firepower and everyone has struggled to put the ball in the hoop with any consistency this season. The first half of the Indiana game showed me that the team can play well offensively and the reemergence of AJ was encouraging.

Hahaha...and you could sneak a peek at the XXX drive in you were out that way! :scream:

Hahaha...I remember those days when a bunch of us kids would spend half the evening trying to find someone over 21 willing to buy us some beer...

I hope that forecast holds. It would be a bummer if rain kept the fans away.

Any idea if their will be food trucks in the tailgate area prior to the game?

Bob Dunning: Come on out for the Aggies’ big day

Aggie Stadium seats nearly 11,000 people and it would be shame if there were even a single empty seat come game time Saturday … game time, incidentally, is 4 p.m., which gives everyone a chance to shop till they drop at the Farmers Market, attend your kid’s soccer game, then pack up a picnic lunch and bring it to the stadium … yes, they allow outside food these days, so you may as well take advantage …

The game will be over around 7 p.m. if you wish to save your appetite for your favorite restaurant or prefer to go home and order a pizza … tickets are just 10 bucks, which is a steal by anyone’s standards these days … UC Davis officials have intentionally kept the cost low in the hope that a loud, raucous, sold-out stadium will give our local heroes the oft-cited home field advantage against the visitors from Northern Iowa …

https://www.davisenterprise.com/local-news/dunning/bob-dunning-come-on-out-for-the-aggies-big-day/

Morgan Bertsch and Kourtney Eaton are about to enter the top of two more UCD basketball records:

With her performance, Bertsch now needs just 12 more points to pass Audwin Thomas, a four-year letter winner for the men’s basketball team from 1975-79, to become the all-time leading scorer in UC Davis men’s and women’s basketball history, while Kourtney Eaton is now five assists away from matching head coach Jennifer Gross for the all-time Aggie record

https://www.davisenterprise.com/sports/ucd-womens-rally-falls-short-against-loyola/

I watched the game and the Hoosiers were never in it from the start. Duke steamrolled them from the get go. Duke's Zion Williamson threw down one of the most thunderous dunks I've ever seen too:

I know exactly the play you mentions and it was the nail in the coffin. We were down 3 with maybe a minute and a few ticks left when we forced a missed 3 with good D and then, instead of going to the ball assertively, we stood there flat-footed. An LMU player came up aggressively from behind and snatched the ball away from an Aggie. It happened like that all too often in this game.

There's a long way to go yet this season but we need to find some offensive weapons on this team. Bertsch, arguably the best offensive player the Aggies have ever had, and she's essentially carrying the team offense with some help from Bessolo. Our opponents are going to focus hard on shutting her down especially when they do not think the Ags have much reliable offense behind her.

LMU beats the Ags 60-53 and fall to 2-4 for the season. The story of this game was that the Lions were the more aggressive team and the stats don't lie: they won the offensive boards 22-5 which resulted in 22 2nd chance points. They competed hard for the ball while the Ags lost one offensive board after another.

Two other areas that the Ags are struggling with are 3 point shooting and a lack of offensive scoring balance. Outside of Bertsch and Bessolo no one is scoring with any consistency. We were shooting 27% from 3 on the year coming into this game and today we shot 22%. Bertsch and Bessolo are the only two Ags averaging double figures and, after that, Cierra McKeown averages 5.2 ppg.

Our bench production has been anemic. We have not seen the offense that I'm sure Jen Gross had hoped for from Konrad, Toole and Stobbart so far and Cierra Hall, who is a great defender and rebounder, struggles getting shots to fall.

Offensive rebounding has always been the Achilles heel of the Aggies. It's hard to know why Jen Gross' teams are generally not good rebounding teams. Even last year's outstanding team got beat on the boards with regularity. We field good size but we tend to stand around flat-footed and get beat to the ball on the boards.

Last year's team would win games like these despite the rebounding woes though because they shot the ball well from downtown. This year's team does not shoot the ball well from 3 and, hence, they are losing games that last year's team would win. We'll have to wait and see if anyone other than Bertsch and Bessolo can bring some offensive balance to the team and whether Gross can will her troops to play more aggressively on the boards.

Video feed is down and the Ags fall behind quickly 46-42 to start the 4th. We really struggle to shoot the ball from the outside.

I'm sure that the Bee has more employees who have attended Sac St than Davis.