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Washington D.C. will get a new 4,000-square-foot full-service ramen bar later this month.

Real Mex Restaurants recently completed the second of a three-phase remodel of its Las Brisas cantina and lounge space in Laguna Beach, Calif.

A favorite of San Francisco Giants’ fans, MoMo’s opened its second location in upscale Walnut Creek.

As part of a $6 million lobby renovation, Portola Hotel & Spa overlooking Monterey Bay and Fisherman’s Wharf in California, opened a new lobby bar/restaurant, Jacks Monterey.

Light Emitting Diode (LED) lighting technology has come a long way and is developing so quickly that even lighting designers are hard-pressed to keep up. “There are many more options, and they’re changing every month,” says Brett Anderson, principal designer of New York-based lighting design firm Focus Lighting.

Last year, the Michigan Baseball Foundation, a nonprofit organization that owns and operates a minor league baseball team in Midland, started an economic initiative to build up and enhance the downtown, which houses the ballpark.

The emphasis is on social at Pinewood Social in Nashville, Tenn. It combines a big bar program with a coffee shop, a full dining room, six bowling lanes and a large outdoor patio, sporting bocce ball courts, two dipping pools, and a 1976 Airstream trailer “food truck.”