June 27, 2021
Plus: The Montecito Club is getting a 1,100-square-foot "golf simulator facility"; $2 million price chop for a Shepard Mesa estate; 48-unit low-income housing proposed for N. La Cumbre Road; nine-unit complex proposed for S. Voluntario Street; new bus terminal in Goleta.
March 15, 2021
A big chunk of the Andalucia Building on State Street is getting turned into a food-and-beverage complex of some kind. 4
February 19, 2021
And the parking structure went from a cold black box to something much, well, funkier. Plus: Renderings of the tasting room's interior. 7
January 8, 2021
After having decided to rehabilitate 11 Anacapa rather than tear it down, the developer is now asking to add a contemporary roof deck to the old building and a slick black box of a parking structure nearby. 7
February 1, 2020
The Inn at Mattei's Tavern, as the hotel will be known when it reopens in 2021, will have "a coffee bar porch" and "an open-air restaurant with a county fair energy."
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Anyone know where to find the best tamales for Christmas? — cheryl
Crazy that they're going to demolish the car wash and the panchanga fichera bar (where you have to pay six dollars per song to dance… — Tina
Well said, I was sleeping lightly at 3:40-ish this morning when I heard a rumbling sound, then some minutes later by a muffled BOOM. Not… — Dan
My take is that I’m fine being woken up at 3 am for national security launches. We live near one of the two good launch… — Andy
I don't know, man, maybe it's you that has his head in the sand. No doubt Elon Musk is a genius at innovation who has… — Doug B
You really have to have your head deep into the sand to believe what you just wrote. If you only knew... — Jefferson A.
It might benefit you to cut back on the tin foil useage bro! Merry Christmas! — Christine!
We stayed in the Vista Clara Rd property several years ago as an AirBnb (the fancied up section with private pool access). The owner and… — Kfkf
Parking is the nemesis of these apartment projects. It is incredibly expensive and torpedos viability. The state law abandoning this as a requirement actually made… — John
Why do you get the feeling? Because simpletons need simple answers. So they make one up... Or it was gas? Ask your ex-wife. Either way,… — Sam Tababa