The Good Life: Midtown ice rink – and the cooperation – have been magical
January 17, 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 23, 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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Northern California Weekend: Sacramento day trip Midtown
December 1, 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 17, 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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Neon ‘Art’ sign finds home at MARRS building
January 16, 2009
By Bob Shallit
Sacramento Bee
Chalk up another splashy piece of public art to Mike Heller.
The developer, who’s planning a 50-foot-high Wayne Thiebaud mural on a midtown office building, recently placed a scrawling, multicolored piece of neon art on his MARRS retail center at 20th and J streets.
The sign – which spells out the word “Art” – once hung outdoors on a wing of the Crocker Art Museum. When that part of the Crocker was torn down last year, Heller’s staff salvaged the artwork.
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