Other noteworthy new listings include a baroque villa high above Montecito; a $16.75 million Picacho Lane flip; Mediterranean that went pending fast; and a sweet 1948 house walking distance to the Upper Village.
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Plus: Opening date for the San Ysidro Creek Bridge; Birnam Wood house raises its price by $1.6 million; “Pattern Recognition” at Sullivan Goss; La Segunda’s terrific eye for vintage.
Other recent news: Update on the effort to stop development next to the San Marcos Foothills Preserve; James Joyce III joins the mayoral race; Peanuts Maternity & Kids shop is closing; commercial eviction moratorium extended; adapting Goleta Beach Park to rising sea levels; new thrift store in Goleta.
More food news: Restaurants continue to reopen for outside dining; more space at the Lark and more service at Bettina; introducing “Santa Barbara County’s only luxury brownie business”; Barbareño launched dinner kits; two healthier takes on a burrito; State Street Coffee is on a break.
Plus: The Channel Islands are open again; explaining the past year in Santa Barbara real estate; another award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival; street sweeping to resume; wherefore the bells toll.
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Everything continues to sell—high, low, turnkey, and not. Among the interesting properties to change hands: a Hedgerow charmer, the weirdest house on the Riviera, a split personality in Birnam Wood, a Hope Ranch fixer in its first time on the market in 70 years, and a cute 1936 house on a secret downtown street.
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Someone snagged 207 acres just west of the Ritz-Carlton Bacara—with a mile and a half of ocean frontage—for a song.
Burning Questions
- What Are Those Old Buildings at the Corner of Castillo and Montecito Streets?
- When Will the Coast Village Road Medians Be Completed?
- What’s This Scaffold Structure on Las Positas Road?
- Why Does Street Striping Take So Long to Happen?
- Why Do Rocket Launches Look the Way They Do?
- How Is the San Ysidro Debris Basin Designed to Work?
- What’s This Building on Helena Avenue?
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