Sacramento residents greeted the city's newest entertainment spots – a mermaid bar, a gourmet pizza restaurant with acrobatic pizza tossers and a high-end dance club – on K Street Mall last week.

Pizza Rock, 1020 K St., opened Friday following sneak previews held earlier in the week at all three businesses.

Sacramento Press’ Mariel Tagg was at Pizza Rock's grand opening Friday, talking to first-time customers and getting some background from co-owner Tony Gemignani:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/43794/Pizza_Rock_opens_to_the_public

Grand openings for Dive Bar and District 30, which flank Pizza Rock, will be held Wednesday.

Community contributors Kati Garner and Ron Nabity covered a VIP sneak-preview party Wednesday night:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/43568/Meet_Downtowns_New_K_Street

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/43561/K_Street_Mall_gets_new_life

Staff reporters Brandon Darnell and Suzanne Hurt included the trio of businesses in year-end development stories:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/42861/A_years_activity_on_K_Street

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/42864/Sacramento_development_in_2010

A story on the exteriors featured an interview with the project's architectural design manager, Michael Boskovich of RMB Architects in Sacramento:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/42329/New_faces_on_K_Street

This story explained one of the delays in the opening:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/38671/Mermaid_bar_to_open_late_2010

A July story looked at owner George Karpaty's concepts and goal to help develop K Street Mall as an entertainment district:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/33333/Fall_opening_expected_for_Dive_Bar

Sacramento Press Editor in Chief David Watts Barton wrote an editorial on the project:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/33330/Karpatys_vision_is_nearly_reality

A story in early 2010 reported that work had resumed on Dive Bar and the two other businesses:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/22142/Mermaid_bar_work_resumes

A story in June 2009 covered interior work by building owners David Taylor and CIM Group and a legal challenge to the project:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/9795/K_Street_Mall_redevelopment_continues

Sacramento Press’ Colleen Belcher wrote about a City Council meeting on the project and how developer and building owner David Taylor and San Francisco nightclub owner George Karpaty teamed up:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/4179/City_Council_meeting_to_determine_fate_of_K_Street_redevelopment_project

Sacramento Press’ Raoul Kleven got the city’s response to comments made about the city’s effort to redevelop the 1000 block of K Street:

http://www.sacramentopress.com/headline/4804/Citys_response_to_10th_and_K_development_project_comments

Photos 1 and 2 by Kati Garner. Photo 3 by Ron Nabity. Suzanne Hurt is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press. Follow her on Twitter @SuzanneHurt.