••• Three more shops have been announced for 700 Linden, the big multitenant complex coming to Carpinteria: The Shopkeepers, which you know from the Funk Zone, will be next to Channel Island Surfboards; an outpost of Goleta’s Mācher will join Carpinteria’s Lantern Tree Books in the northeast corner. The project is now shooting to open “later this fall,” per an item in Coastal View News. Office spaces and the rooftop bar are still available.
••• The word on the street is that Sephora will relocate from inside Paseo Nuevo to 733 State Street (Ortega/De La Guerra), once Vuori moves to the corner of State and Ortega.
••• Franceschi Park is on the August 14 agenda of the Historic Landmarks Commission, and the Parks & Recreation department appears to have landed on a very simple design for where Franceschi House currently stands. (It’s being demolished.) The plan is described as “a raised garden terrace,” and while there are plenty of commemorative plaques, there’s no mention of retaining ghostly elements of the house.
••• The townhouse development at 1 Hot Springs (between Santa Barbara Cemetery and the train tracks/freeway) goes before the city Planning Commission on Thursday, and the plans have changed a bit: it’s now 22 units, down from 27. And the look is different, with gabled roofs of red tile instead of flat ones. When in doubt, make it Spanishish….
••• Dollar Tree has a banner up saying it’s open—I didn’t go around the corner and investigate—and here’s hoping the State Street frontage gets improved.
••• I’ve seen a lot of fun/weird stuff in people’s yards over the years, but this installation on Via Diego (west of N. La Cumbre Road) might take the cake.
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re Carp, map shows Macher and Lantern in the southwest corner, not northwest
North isn’t at the top of the floor plan; imagine it rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
Why did they remove the pools and spa’s from 1 hot springs project? Let’s hope they have a big landscaping budget too.
Relieved and pleasantly surprised that the City came up with a simple, and hopefully inexpensive, solution to the Franchesi Park issue. One that didn’t take years, award millions of dollars to consultants, or give in to the vocal minority who feel that everything old is historic. More of that please.