Hi-fi bar operator eyes space at The Diggs adaptive reuse project downtown
The biggest adaptive reuse project currently in Sacramento’s urban core appears to have a nightlife-focused tenant in one corner.
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Downtown adaptive reuse project The Diggs scores Miyamoto International as tenant
Locally based global structural engineering firm Miyamoto International is taking a ground-floor office lease in The Diggs, the biggest adaptive reuse project currently underway in Sacramento’s urban core.
It was a Freeport Boulevard icon. Why the Hollywood Hardware sign moved downtown
Mike Heller couldn’t fathom Hollywood Hardware’s sign going to waste. The neon sign, which spells out the word “hardware” along the handle of a giant hammer, stood for decades at the family-owned business at 5303 Freeport Blvd. in Sacramento’s Hollywood Park neighborhood. After the store closed in 2024, the sign remained in place before Heller…
Making Adaptive Reuse Possible
In the heart of Sacramento’s R Street corridor, a long-standing industrial building is now solving one of the city’s most pressing challenges: the need for more housing. The DIGGS brings new life to a historic structure, transforming the 1911 Thomson-Diggs warehouse into 132 new residential units, over 24,000 square feet of mini-storage, and vibrant commercial…
Heller, other developers talk strategies as funding challenges reshape project timelines
Finding New Purpose
A slow but steady trend of returning to the office is helping define the future of many of the region’s smaller office buildings – and whether they have a future at all. One of the more intriguing conversion projects is Heller Pacific’s The Diggs at 3rd and R streets. The 4-story building dates back to…