r8rs1 - I'm with you, if they left when their lease expired, it could not have been a surprise that they didn't plan to renew. According to Wikipedia, out of Hard Rock's 140 locations, Sacramento is the only location that they have closed....looks like either something wasn't working out between the Dowtown Sacramento Partnership and Hard Rock or the return on investment was THAT bad and nothing could have kept them in the space. There are a lot of good ideas on these posts, change is good. Visualwest...there's a D&B coming to Roseville...