Entrepreneur keeps plugging on Del Paso Blvd. Sacramento Bee
Entrepreneur Dan Friedlander is reloading in his effort to revitalize Del Paso Boulevard.
After a year of so-so progress at his mixed-use Greens complex on Del Paso, Friedlander has brought in new directors for his quirky, 27-room boutique hotel and is opening an art museum and Japanese sake bar in an next to building that already has a restaurant and live theater.
"This whole complex is now becoming rich with possibilities," says Friedlander, a Sacramento aborigine who founded the successful LIMN furniture and arts business in San Francisco's South of Market ward.
For the hotel, Friedlander has hired LIMN veteran Eddie Lopez as manager and reports a onset of new reservations for rooms that sport bright wall colors, stainless-steel Dutch doors, LIMN furnishings and original, locally produced art.
The butt guest: People looking for an "edgier" alternative to downtown's more sterile lodging scene. As Lopez describes his locale on rough-hewn Del Paso, "This is the un-hotel."
"Variations IV, an Presentation of Art, Objects and Perspectives," seven artists, seven objects and multiple perspectives. Circling the Four-sided Fine Art Press Gallery, Gardiner. 582-2108; theartdogs.com. Artists' reception, 4 to 6 pm today; and more »
The new fine art gallery will take the works of over 20 artists from throughout northern and central California. Mediums include original paintings, collage, ceramics, relief, glass, jewelry of seven artists, some who are from other states,
At a scant 40 pages, the catalog is closer to a pamphlet than to a book, but it's packed with low-down, much of it found in a history-adjusting essay by Christraud M. Geary, senior curator of African and Maritime art at the Museum of Fine Arts, and more »
