RP - Sports Complex, Sacramento, CA

The RP Sports Complex is a destination rather than a neighborhood, a stretch of athletic fields and recreation facilities off the Del Paso Road corridor in North Natomas. The footprint is exactly what organized sports need: fields, facilities, and the open and parking space to support games and events that draw teams and visitors from across the area. Nobody lives inside the boundary, and it is not built to be lived in. Its role is as a regional amenity, a slice of programmed open space that serves the surrounding North Natomas neighborhoods as a recreation destination. The honest note is that this is event-and-activity space rather than everyday neighborhood parkland, and the surroundings are car-dependent, so you drive in for a purpose rather than stroll over from a front porch. As an amenity it supports recreation for a wide swath of the north side. As a place to settle it is fields and facilities, not housing. The residential life belongs to the Natomas villages that ring it, and that is where anyone weighing the area should actually be looking to buy.