Salt & Straw, the popular Portland-based ice cream brand known for its eclectic flavors, will expand to Sacramento in 2022, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Sacramento Bee. The ice cream shop will land in midtown Sacramento’s Ice Blocks mixed-use project, developer Michael Heller told The Bee on Saturday. It’ll neighbor the new See’s Candies…
See’s Candies is the latest retailer to join Midtown Sacramento’s Ice Blocks project, with a store that’s expected to open later this year. The San Francisco-based candy maker will fill around 1,100 square feet at the corner of 18th and R streets, said Ice Blocks developer Mike Heller. “To me See’s is one of America’s most iconic brands.…
Sacramento’s first Shake Shack will open at 11 a.m. Thursday for to-go orders in midtown’s Ice Blocks development after a year’s wait, a company spokeswoman confirmed to The Bee. The New York-based fast food chain famous for its crinkle-cut fries and “concretes” will sell a few area-specific takes on the latter out of 1710 R…
By Ryan Lillis and Tony Bizjak rlillis@sacbee.com It is one of midtown Sacramento’s quietest corners, a world away from the hopping nightclubs, restaurants and stores of J and K streets. The industries that once occupied the blocks along Q, R and S streets east of 15th Street mostly departed long ago, leaving a legacy of…
03/18/2015 5:19 PM | Updated: 03/20/2015 12:42 PM Bob Shallit – The Sacramento Bee A bold plan to revitalize three gritty blocks along Sacramento’s R Street corridor is racing toward reality. Developer Michael Heller has been meeting regularly with city officials to streamline the approval process for his Ice Blocks project, a 200,000-square-foot collection of…
Sep 19, 2014, 7:30am PDT Ben van der Meer Staff Writer- Sacramento Business Journal Developer Mike Heller of Heller Pacific pulled back the curtain Thursday on future plans for one of midtown Sacramento most visible – and visibly underused – properties. The former Crystal Ice plant — three separate parcels on either side of R…
