Country-western retail chain Tecovas replacing Device Brewing in Ice Blocks
A country-western retail chain from Austin, Texas, is the latest tenant to join the Ice Blocks development in Sacramento.
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3 Sacramento restaurants are added to Michelin’s 2025 guide for California
Three Sacramento restaurants have been added to the prestigious 2025 Michelin Guide for California, bringing more attention to the city’s vibrant food scene. The restaurants feature Thai, Italian and Vietnamese cuisines. Kin Thai, located on 20th Street in Midtown, is praised by the guide for its menu that “runs the gamut of flavors from sweet…
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…
Urban Roots partners to open new Ice Blocks restaurant in former Beast + Bounty space
Most of Peter Hoey and Rob Archie’s restaurants are in residential neighborhoods, and they’ve enjoyed amicable relationships with people living nearby. Being a good neighbor has been core to their business philosophy. Now, it’ll be part of the brand. The Urban Roots Hospitality Group partners will open their newest concept, Good Neighbor, in Beast +…
Omakase Por Favor restaurant opens at MARRS
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Podcast: Sacramento’s Ice Blocks Full of Restaurants, Retail, More
Sacramento’s Ice Blocks project redeveloped a historic section of R Street, adding a host of businesses to the trendy corridor in Downtown and Midtown Sacramento. Now completely full, it’s become a must-visit section of the city. On this week’s episode of the Visit Sacramento Podcast, Deron Benvenuti, director of leasing for Heller Pacific, which developed…
Meet the landlord: Mike Heller, Spaces R Street Sacramento
Located in The Ice Blocks – a design-forward mixed-use development in Sacramento’s Midtown – Spaces R Street sits alongside trendy urban housing, shops and restaurants, creating a multifunctional urban hub for hybrid workers. Construction is in Mike Heller’s blood. His father was a builder, so it was perhaps fated that he would follow in his…
Eclectic Portland-based ice cream shop Salt & Straw expanding to midtown Sacramento
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…
Ice Blocks fills out retail lineup with Anthropologie, Salt & Straw
In a sign of optimism for urban retail, two new leases have taken Midtown Sacramento’s Ice Blocks project to completely full. Soft goods retailer Anthropologie and Salt & Straw ice cream should open in upcoming months in spaces of 6,000 and 1,000 square feet, respectively, on the south side of R Street between 16th and…
See 11 major new housing projects that will redefine life in Sacramento’s central city
Building booms in the urban cores of Portland, Ore., and Austin, Texas, have long left Sacramento leaders envious. But the capital city’s big moment may finally be on the horizon. Hundreds of residential units will open next year in the central city grid — and even more are in advanced planning stages. From locally-designed projects…