Aggie Square Updates Content

Checking In With Chancellor May: Aggie Square Opens a New Era of Innovation and Connection

Cody Kitaura — April 18, 2025 - 11:35am

To the UC Davis community:

Q&A: How Tech Foundry Hopes to Have an Impact at Aggie Square

Cody Kitaura — April 15, 2025 - 12:53pm

When a researcher at UC Davis needs a tool that doesn’t exist, they often turn to Tech Foundry, a facility that uses 3D printers, CNC machines and laser cutters to create one-of-a-kind devices and prototypes.

The development facility, known previously as the TEAM Lab, is operated by the Department of Biomedical Engineering and has had a location in Davis for more than 15 years, and is now in the process of opening a second space in Aggie Square.

Sacramento Proud: Local Businesses Build Aggie Square

Cody Kitaura — March 18, 2025 - 10:49am

If the walls at Aggie Square could talk, they would tell stories that go beyond the upcoming launch of the innovation district rising on the UC Davis Sacramento campus. They would also speak to local history and the role of regional enterprises in building the ambitious project that will open in May.

Construction Managers Come Full Circle at Aggie Square

Anila Mary Lijo — March 04, 2025 - 3:16pm

For Joshua Chavez, working on Aggie Square was something of a homecoming, even though he’d only passed by the site of the Sacramento innovation district.

A 2021 graduate of UC Davis who majored in managerial economics, Chavez helped to manage some of the early, pivotal work on the Aggie Square site in 2023 — such as bringing power, water and sewer lines to the 11-acre site, which is a partnership between the university and Wexford Science & Technology LLC.

Aggie Square: Redefining Sustainability in Commercial Development

Anila Mary Lijo — January 21, 2025 - 4:09pm

A key element in the vision of Aggie Square is sustainability — a broad concept that encompasses and inspired the massive project’s design at all levels, from its use of all-electric energy sources down to the details of reducing the carbon footprint from transporting materials with the use of locally produced brick and glass envelope. The sustainability goals set by the University of California system are ambitious, and Aggie Square is poised to exceed them.

Aggie Square 101

Cody Kitaura — January 07, 2025 - 3:35pm

The development of Aggie Square has led to a lot of changes on UC Davis’ Sacramento campus in the past few years, and the project will soon have an even bigger impact across the entire region.

Sacramento City Council Adopts Intent to Establish Aggie Square

Anonymous — October 27, 2020 - 9:10pm

The University of California, Davis, is delighted to announce that the Aggie Square project is one step closer to realization. After Tuesday’s Sacramento City Council meeting (Oct. 27), in which members adopted unanimously a resolution of intention to establish the Aggie Square Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District, or EIFD, UC Davis leadership is encouraged by the city’s continued commitment to this transformative venture.

UC Davis Aggie Square Will Add Billions to Sacramento Region

Julia Ann Easley — July 07, 2020 - 7:14am

New analysis from an economic research firm predicts Aggie Square at the UC Davis Sacramento campus will add nearly $5 billion to the Sacramento region’s economy each year and support 25,000 ongoing jobs.

Design for the first stage of the project, a partnership between the University of California, Davis, the city of Sacramento and developer Wexford Science & Technology, has just been completed, as has an economic impact report, developed by Economic & Planning Systems.

Video Added: Aggie Square, Alice Waters Collaborate on Edible Education Institute

Dave Jones — January 16, 2020 - 9:00am

UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May today (Jan. 16) joined chef and food advocate Alice Waters and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg to announce a new collaboration and an anchor tenant for Aggie Square, UC Davis’ planned innovation hub on the university’s Sacramento campus.

The new Alice Waters Institute for Edible Education at the University of California, Davis, will bring together experts from across disciplines such as education, health care, agriculture, policy and business to create new solutions for healthy, sustainable and equitable food systems.

4 Developers Invited to Submit Aggie Square Proposals

Amy E Rafferty — September 16, 2019 - 11:02am

The University of California, Davis, has issued a request for proposals, or RFP, to a group of real estate developers interested in financing, designing, building, owning and managing the first phase of Aggie Square, a new innovation hub for the university’s Sacramento campus.