Facts And Information About Two Cities Near Sacramento To Think About Prior To Relocating Or Moving
The capital of California is Sacramento and there are several great places to live in near the Sacramento area. A couple of the towns that are great choices to reside are called Roseville and Rancho Cordova. This article will explore the various things that these two cities have to offer and why they are good locations to live, other than being situated in beautiful northern California. An owner of a Rancho Cordova corporate catering company that serves up some of the most delicious Roseville BBQ catering in the area says he would reside nowhere else than Roseville or Ranch Cordova for various reasons.
The first location, Roseville has a population of a little over 100,000 residents but is growing steadily expecting it to be closer to almost 134,000 by the year 2015. The area of Roseville is over 30 square miles big and has several beautiful streams that meander through the city named Dry Creek, Linda Creek, Secret Ravine and Cirby Creek. This city has great and lush vegetation that is more common in Northern California with the cooler climate and additional rainfall that falls there. Most of the rain falls during the cooler winters and the summer are typically hot and dry in Roseville. CNN’s, “Money,” magazine ranked Roseville as one of the Best Places to live in 2006. Another ranking showed this town to be the thinnest place in the nation with a body mass index of only 24.5. This may explain why there are a large amount of professional and Olympic athletes that hail from Roseville.
Roseville has a strong economy in it with a lot of retail businesses in it. It is the location of one of the largest Auto malls in the nation that helps the local community in addition to being known for a significant amount of shopping opportunities. This city was listed as having the 11th highest retail sales in the whole state of California last year with its wide variety of shopping choices. It has a great a regional shopping destination where people traveling there go shopping. The largest destination is the Westfield Galleria which is continuing to grow and across the street from that is another retail location called the Fountains. They are hoping once the economy improves, so will things in this great city of Roseville.
There are many other big employers in Roseville such as Hewlett-Packard, Kaiser Permanente, Union Pacific Railroad, and Sutter Roseville Medical Center as some of the larger companies. In 1988 Roseville made the move to undergo a revitalization of the downtown area improving many of the historic buildings that were in bad shape.
Rancho Cordova is a new community that was incorporated in 2003 and already has about 60,000 residents. It was named after the Cordova Vineyards that were located there. It has a wonderfully diverse ethnic combination of residents and many famous major league baseball players also, lived in Rancho Cordova such as Chris Bosio and Max Venable. Another notable resident is Lester Holt on the Today Show.
