Civil Municipal - Feb 2024

to not only celebrate diversity but help members who are not part of a specific group or ethnicity, understand, learn, and celebrate alongside,” she describes. INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Suisun City has been proactive in enhancing its infrastructure to meet the evolving needs of its growing community. A notable accomplishment includes securing a grant from Caltrans to beautify Highway 12, a crucial route passing through Suisun that needed aesthetic improvements. In terms of economic development, the city recently participated in a groundbreaking ceremony for Tractor Supply, a major retailer that is opening a Suisun City location. In addition, the sale of a marina building to Larsen Marine brings a boat retailer to the city’s downtown. There is an opportunity for Suisun City to expand and annex its borders, to bring a logistics center to the community. “That’s one of the larger projects that we have currently under environmental review, and depending on if it successfully goes through, it brings a different industry to Suisun that it hasn’t had before.” Transportation is another priority, and Suisun City has a pivotal role in the expansion of Union Pacific Rail, as Hernandez details,“As they expand to other areas in the region, whether it’s towards the Napa Sonoma area or the East Bay, San Jose, the city of Suisun City is marked as an area that whatever the final map of how the rail will expand, it’ll go through Suisun City. 69 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 02 SUISUN CI TY, CA