Pocket-Greenhaven at street level
The neighborhood started as Greenhaven 70, a planned community launched by the Lincoln and Parker Development Company around 1958, named after the greenbelt laid out between Greenhaven and Havenside Drives. John F. Kennedy High School opened in 1967. Building continued through the 1980s and 1990s into the Pocket proper, adding Riverlake and the homes around Lake Greenhaven, so the housing runs from early ranch through Mediterranean and contemporary in a way that changes street by street. Garcia Bend Park at 7654 Pocket Road has the boat ramp everyone uses. The Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven library is on Gloria Drive. And every longtime resident can explain the levee trail argument: the city has spent decades trying to close the roughly four-mile Sacramento River Parkway gap between Garcia Bend and Zacharias, and levee-side owners keep objecting.
Who comes in from Pocket-Greenhaven, and what for
Two groups come north from here. The first bought in Greenhaven in the 1960s or 1970s, never left, and is now dealing with the end of life of forty-year-old dentistry: bridges giving way, roots fracturing under old crowns, partials that have stopped fitting. The second is the generation that grew up at Didion or Caroline Wenzel, moved back with children of their own, and wants a family office that will actually talk to them. The practice handles both, plus the urgent repairs that tend to arrive without warning.
Getting to Artisan Dentistry from Pocket-Greenhaven
Drive note. Eight to ten miles depending on where in the bend you start. Most people take Interstate 5 north and exit at Q Street or J Street, then cut east through Midtown. Freeport Boulevard to Broadway is the surface alternative and is often no slower. Fourteen to twenty minutes, longer if you leave during the Highway 50 merge.
Parking. Patient parking and the entrance are accessed via 33rd Street.
Landmarks nearby. Garcia Bend Park at 7654 Pocket Road, John F. Kennedy High School, Robbie Waters Pocket-Greenhaven Library on Gloria Drive, The Riverlake community, Lake Greenhaven, Genevieve Didion K-8, The Sacramento River levee and parkway trail.
Transit, bikes, and parking from Pocket-Greenhaven
SacRT Route 62, the Freeport line, is the one that matters. It starts at Rush River Drive and Windbridge Drive, works through Greenhaven Drive and South Land Park Drive, then runs Freeport Boulevard and 21st Street into downtown, ending near J and 4th. From there Route 30 heads east on J Street and stops at J and 33rd. Parking and the entrance are off 33rd Street.
