CHAPTER TWO
The News-Press is leaving Santa Barbara: Now that the newspaper is moving all of its operations to Goleta, what will happen to the iconic 1922 building on De Le Guerra Plaza? And the massive parking lot to the east?
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Marcus Lemonis’s Ennisbrook property for $18 million; Hope Ranch house flipped for a loss; Sycamore Canyon Megaterranean; interior designer’s Mission Canyon revamp; Eucalyptus Hill teardown for $365,000 over ask; the Alta Mesa one with the turtle-roofed outbuilding; Tunnel Road cabin; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Bed Bath & Beyond is closing all of its stores.
••• Jane Fonda to be honored at this weekend’s Earth Day Festival.
••• “See the homeless” sign is back up on the 101.
••• Kim Cantin wrote a book about her tragic loss.
••• The tree of the month is the bronze loquat.
••• Something is rotten in the city of Solvang.
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