MARRS Building gets new tenants

By Suzanne Hurt
Sacramento Press

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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The prestige of being ‘prudent’

2600-capitol-night-professional-picBy Michael Shaw and Kathy Robertson
Sacramento Business Journal

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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Heller Pacific employees work hard, play hard

Story By Lisa Kopochinski
Photo by Noel Neuburger
Sacramento Business Journal

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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The Art of Infill

By Boyce Thompson
Builder Magazine

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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Distinctly their own

Sacramento Bee

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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