Vitaliy Moskalenko is a development reporter passionate about documenting how communities grow. Through Onsite Observer, he delivers site visits, drone footage, and research-driven stories that bring transparency and context to local development.
Infrastructure
Work is expected to begin in the coming weeks on replacing a pedestrian and bicycle bridge over Interstate 5 that was deemed structurally unsound before it ever opened to the public, Sacramento city officials announced. The Del Rio Trail bridge, meant to link a new 4.8-mile path through south
Residential Real Estate
Residential Real Estate
When California Forever pulled its ambitious East Solano Plan from the November 2024 ballot, many assumed the tech-funded vision for a brand-new city in Solano County was dead—at least for now. The politics were too toxic, the details too murky, and the opposition too organized. But the company didn&
Commercial Real Estate
Infrastructure
Residential Real Estate
California just took a political sledgehammer to one of its most sacred cows—its own environmental regulations. In a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation, the Legislature passed and Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills, SB 131 and AB 130, that together amount to the most sweeping housing reform in the
Infrastructure
After years of delays and a failed partnership with a national developer, the City of Elk Grove is officially moving forward with a new vision for Project Elevate—a long-planned, high-profile development on city-owned land next to District56. On June 25, the City Council voted to approve a new Purchase
Commercial Real Estate
The Sacramento County Planning Commission voted Monday night to recommend approval of the Upper Westside Specific Plan, advancing a project that could reshape a large swath of Natomas farmland into a dense, mixed-use community along the edge of the Sacramento River. The 2,066-acre proposal—which includes 9,356 homes,
Residential Real Estate
Infrastructure
For decades, the Railyards, the River District, and West Sacramento's Bridge District were the kinds of places you passed by without thinking twice. If you noticed them at all, it was probably from the freeway—rusting warehouses, dirt lots, forgotten silos. These were the leftovers of Sacramento'
Commercial Real Estate
For more than 40 years, the Railyards sat dormant just north of downtown Sacramento—a vast industrial skeleton, too big to ignore and too costly to fix. This week, the city finally moved to break that cycle. On Tuesday, the Sacramento City Council unanimously approved a sweeping development deal that
Infrastructure
In the fields south of Elk Grove, where groundwater pumps have long been lifelines for farmers, a new kind of water is coming — not from wells or rivers, but from the region's sewers. Along Franklin Boulevard, excavators claw through dirt, traffic detours snake past trenching zones, and the