By: Kate Washington

Sactown Magazine

June 2011

What happens when you mix Iron Chef with Mr. Wizard?  Molecular gastronomy, thats whats.  How Lounge on 20 is reinventing itself with compressed strawberris, carrot gel and, yes, mang “yolks”.

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Melanie Turner

September 3, 2010

When it comes to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified office buildings, benefits such as energy and water saving can be measured. [Read more]

Second Saturday was an ideal, almost-Victorian evening.  People wore heavy coats, gloves and hats, and seemed genuinely happy just to be outside.

Ground zero of that, at 20th at J streets, was the festive, lively, movie scene of an ice rink.  Around 8 p.m., the rink swarmed with more than 100 people, some skating, some sitting along the edge, some pinwheeling and flopping.

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It was a great day to skate, and shop, as it turned out.

They glided across the ice, tottered and wobbled on their skates, and on a midtown street-turned-frozen pond Tuesday found an alternative to the crowded holiday shopping mall.

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Why go now: Sacramento’s happening Midtown has spawned perfect-for-December hot spots with great eats mixed right in with the shopping, so you can warm up and refuel as you go.  Where is it, again? On Sac’s easy-to-navigate street grid, Midtown stretches from 16th to 29th Streets; businesses cluster J, K, and L.

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Midtown’s MARRS Building has a full house again with the three new tenants coming on board this month.

Two spaces have been vacant for several months after business owners left without a word and without paying all their bills-which really hurts after the effort the company made to help them be successful, said building owner Michael Heller of Heller Pacific.

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An office on Capitol Mall still conveys power and authority for many of the city’s largest law firms, but one firm is looking for a different feel in greener confines in midtown Sacramento.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, the region’s 12th -largest law firm, is leaving the Wells Fargo Tower at 400 Capitol Mall where is has been for 15 years after signing a long-term least at 2600 Capitol. The new environmentally friendly building is in a neighborhood of mature trees and Victorian homes.

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Monthly massages, golf outings, cooking parties in Napa and an extra week of vacation are just some of the employee perks at Heller Pacific, a real estate development company.

“Mike (owner Michael Heller Jr.) believes in goals, hard work and taking time off,” said Tara Castro, the firm’s property manager who has been with the company for 3 1/2 years.

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Mollie Nelson breathes a sigh of relief as she closes the door to the last home to sell in the 32-unit Sutter Brownstones project in downtown Sacramento, Calif.  When the home officially closes later in the day, it will make the end of a two-an-a-half year odyssey. “That will be the last tour I ever give [for Sutter],” says the director of sales and marketing for LoftWorks.

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Curtis Popp welcomed a guest to his Land Park home, offered a drink and served the ice water in  a canning jar. 

It was not classless. It was classic.

Popp, a designer and practitioner of interior architecture, makes esthetic choices deliberately.

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