WALK WITH ME
Pinched between the airport and Highway 101 is an industrial area that benefits from the kind of closer inspection that only walking can provide.
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JUST LISTED
Noteworthy new listings: Supersize Hope Ranch villa asking $11.2 million; a Lilac Drive house priced to move; a teardown on nearly five acres at the bottom of Coyote Road; 1922 fixer in the Upper East; and, for the yurt-inclined, the 40-acre White Lotus yoga foundation.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• UCSB wants to build an 11-story dormitory (above).
••• Biltmore owner Ty Warner is now using the Four Seasons New York as leverage.
••• Deltopia movie causing consternation in Isla Vista.
••• Montecito lingerie store to be replaced by new lingerie store.
••• California’s updated Covid-19-related guidelines for schools.
••• Interview with architect Jeff Shelton.
••• The latest head of Santa Barbara City College has resigned.
••• The case against fake grass.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Pepper Hill’s underground lair is getting landscaped (above).
••• Initial steps toward redoing the West Beach wading pool.
••• New tenant for the other half of the Greyhound bus station.
••• Khruangbin at the Santa Barbara Bowl.
••• Watercolors at Thomas Reynolds Gallery.
••• Survey regarding fitness equipment at Dwight Murphy Field.
••• New York City gallery popping up in the Funk Zone.
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WHERE IN SANTA BARBARA…?
Congratulation to Valdas for correctly identifying where this was shot. We’ll play again on Saturday morning.
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