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…
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…
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…
