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As Aggie Square moves from its planning to action phase, a series of webinars has been scheduled on subjects that matter to the community.

On Wednesday, Oct. 13, the second in the series — "Workforce Development Strategy and UC Small Business First Program" — was hosted by Aggie Square partners UC Davis, the city of Sacramento and Wexford Science & Technology. 

At a September Volunteer Leadership Summit, Aggie Square Planning Director Bob Segar gave a presentation about the impact Aggie Square will have on Sacramento. The video of this presentation gives a broad overview at how the project began and how it is taking shape now.

Segar's presentation is both a good refresher for people familiar with the project as well as an excellent starting point for those just becoming familiar with Aggie Square.

In a recent discussion with Greg Partch, associate director for UC Davis' Design and Construction Management, he shared some of the frequently asked questions — and answers — he gets about the Aggie Square project. 

While the Aggie Square website has many detailed answers, here is some fundamental information about the overall design, construction and management of the project. 

In the earliest days of Aggie Square, a logo or wordmark was necessary to help give the new project an identity.

While the initial logo, a “lettermark” consisting of a UC Davis-gold box with an off-centered UC Davis-blue letter A, was a distinct look for Aggie Square, more could certainly be said about the innovation hub. An A with a square certainly did not require much decoding, but it didn’t put forth much of a message either.

In a recent virtual panel about construction jobs starting at Aggie Square, the overall takeaway was this: “It's about the construction jobs and the construction talent that exists within the Sacramento region,” according to Travis Sheridan, Wexford Science and Technology’s chief community officer.

By Tanya Perez

As Aggie Square moves from the planning stage into implementing those plans, construction jobs are moving from ideas to realities, as well.

In a recent conversation with Kevin Ferreira, executive director of the Sacramento-Sierra Building and Construction Trades Council, or SSBCTC, he shared the progress already made toward the goals of training and hiring local workers for building Aggie Square.