Strategic Action Plan
Downtown Sacramento Partnership’s Strategic Action Plan is our roadmap for building value downtown through 2035. Grounded in our mission, the plan focuses our work around four pillars: Safe, Clean, Environmental Management, and Economic Development. Each pillar includes a priority that defines what we want to achieve and strategies that outline how we’ll get there. While our annual work will evolve with the needs of downtown, these pillars and priorities provide a consistent framework for turning our vision into action.
Mission: Build value downtown.
Vision: Downtown Sacramento is a vibrant 24-hour premier destination where innovation, culture, and commerce converge. Every block contributes to a neighborhood that reflects authentic character, cultivated through partnership and woven together by shared experiences. Downtown embodies Sacramento’s unique spirit and showcases our region’s importance to the world.
Pillars
Safe
Priority: Foster a Fundamentally Safe and Secure Downtown for All
Strategies:
- Embed safety as a core function across all downtown systems, programs, and operations.
- Advance a consistent, proactive, high-accountability approach to safety and intervention.
- Concentrate safety resources and strategies in high-impact areas to improve overall downtown conditions.
- Address key drivers of public safety concerns through collaboration and accountability, including disruptive youth activity, disorderly behaviors, and quality of life crimes.
- Develop a best-in-class, partnership driven approach to delivering safety downtown.
Clean
Priority: Elevate and Maintain a Clean Foundation for Downtown Success
Strategies:
- Sustain and evolve a high-performing adaptive cleanliness operations model.
- Address recurring cleanliness challenges through coordinated intervention.
- Foster shared responsibility and civic pride through community engagement and partnerships.
- Continuously assess and elevate cleanliness standards to align with a high-performing downtown environment
Environmental Management
Priority: Curate an Active, Inspiring, and Authentically Sacramento Experience
Strategies:
- Align public realm management practices to consistently deliver a safe, clean, and inviting downtown experience.
- Strengthen cross-agency coordination, technology, and policy enforcement to improve environmental management and service delivery.
- Leverage public space activations to shape positive use and behavior in downtown.
- Strengthen connectivity and walkability by removing physical and perceived barriers to advance a cohesive, people-centered public realm.
- Unify and promote a distinct Sacramento identity by aligning intentional experiences with a cohesive visual identity and sense of place.
Economic Development
Priority: Cultivate Downtown as a Highly Desirable Hub for Investment, Connection, and Economic Growth
Strategies:
- Strengthen market conditions to position downtown as a predictable and competitive environment for capital investment for shared community prosperity.
- Actively align projects, partners, and resources to build public confidence in downtown through consistent delivery of a well-managed, reliable, and high-quality experience.
- Advance innovative and flexible strategies to reduce vacancies, increase density, and use-type diversification, and activate underutilized properties.
- Position the Downtown Sacramento Partnership as a visionary leader, regional driver of progress, and trusted partner for sustainable growth.