The Good Life: Midtown ice rink – and the cooperation – have been magical
January 17th, 2010
By Rick Kushman
Sacramento Bee
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Second Saturday was an ideal, almost-Victorian evening. People wore heavy coats, gloves and hats, and seemed genuinely happy just to be outside.
Ground zero of that, at 20th at J streets, was the festive, lively, movie scene of an ice rink. Around 8 p.m., the rink swarmed with more than 100 people, some skating, some sitting along the edge, some pinwheeling and flopping.
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Ice skating rink draws shoppers to midtown
December 23rd, 2009
By Darrell Smith
Sacramento Bee
It was a great day to skate, and shop, as it turned out.
They glided across the ice, tottered and wobbled on their skates, and on a midtown street-turned-frozen pond Tuesday found an alternative to the crowded holiday shopping mall.
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Weighing price, parking, proximity
December 11th, 2009
By Michael Shaw
Sacramento Business Journal
Warren Smith wanted to locate his start-up clean-tech company in downtown Sacramento to be close to key players in the energy industry, but he didn’t realize how important the setting would ultimately prove to be.
“I’ve always liked downtown. I love the fact that I park my car and I’m on my feet for the rest of the day,” said Smith, a former Sacramento River Cats official who launched Clean World Partners this year from the Retro Lodge, an office building converted from an old motel at H and 11th streets. The office is a short walk from the California Environmental Protection Agency building, where Smith spends a lot of time lobbying for the waste-to-energy industry.
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Northern California Weekend: Sacramento day trip Midtown
December 1st, 2009
Sunset Magazine
Why go now: Sacramento’s happening Midtown has spawned perfect-for-December hot spots with great eats mixed right in with the shopping, so you can warm up and refuel as you go. Where is it, again? On Sac’s easy-to-navigate street grid, Midtown stretches from 16th to 29th Streets; businesses cluster J, K, and L.
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MARRS Building gets new tenants
November 17th, 2009
By Suzanne Hurt
Sacramento Press
Midtown’s MARRS Building has a full house again with the three new tenants coming on board this month.
Two spaces have been vacant for several months after business owners left without a word and without paying all their bills-which really hurts after the effort the company made to help them be successful, said building owner Michael Heller of Heller Pacific.
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