January 5, 2025
Tag: Light + Home
Three Stores Are Closing (or Have Already Closed)
Plus: Is the new Soltara apartment building being converted to workforce housing?; huge building on N. Calle Cesar Chavez sells for $36.5 million; new owner of classic midcentury on Canon Perdido; more on the Garden Street rooftop sculpture; dental hygienist opening an office without a dentist. 3
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November 5, 2023
Lookout Park Has Expanded
Plus: Hotel deals for locals and their guests; Light + Home's downtown pop-up; left-turn lane in the works for State and Mission; Google paid $16.8 million for Goleta land; another hotel changed hands; Ojai house tour; flamenco in a historic adobe; talk by the James Webb Space Telescope's lead project scientist. 1
Burning Questions
- What’s the Story Behind the Seal of the City of Santa Barbara?
- Four Questions From the Mailbag
- What’s This Pole With a Flashing Blue Light?
- What Are These Sculptures on the Riviera?
- What’s the Origin Story of This Fence on Hot Springs Road?
- What’s the Housing Development Under Construction Next to the Polo Fields?
- Why Is Part of This West Beach Mosaic Covered in Concrete?
Recent Comments
The revamped concert shell - corner Castillo/Cabrillo — Megan
I read that the developers are putting an apartment building right behind Tri-County Produce. How cool would it be to have a grocery store in… — Keith
The encircling “estate” wrought iron fence matches the current backyard fence that was there when I purchased property? Please tell me Peter, where is the… — Julie R
I previewed the home before it went on the market, and I actually loved the fence. I don’t know what was there before, but I… — Todd
Actually a lot of the homes on the Mesa that are selling for insane prices are being bought up by mega millionaires from out of… — Enna
Unfortunately the Cookie Plug is an example of what most every business and property owners in Santa Barbara must endure. The bureaucracy is impossibly expensive… — Tammy Hughes
The Cajun Kitchen in Goleta is the one next to Target. There is another one in Goleta on Calle Real and Fairview. Hopefully, that one… — Michael
It’s only going to get worse until people vote differently and face the fact that voting in California is likely heavily “modified”. Control your government… — Jasen
Re:124 La Marina. The sole reason this house (and others between Cliff and the ocean) go for these astronomical prices is they ALL become vacation… — Emma C
The struggle to satiate the Markel Winfrey crowd is real. — Durantico?