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It was a Freeport Boulevard icon. Why the Hollywood Hardware sign moved downtown

The DIGGS

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

The DIGGS

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…

3 Sacramento restaurants are added to Michelin’s 2025 guide for California

MARRS

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

The DIGGS

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…

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