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Plus: “Secret Garden Market” and bake sale coming up in the Funk Zone; meeting about the plan to renovate Ortega Park; construction on Route 150; public input sought for a new fire station shared by Montecito and Carpinteria.
More food news: Accolades for Bettina, Bell’s, and Sushi Bar Montecito; Better Burrito now available at Dart Coffee Co., Aperitivo is offering retail bottles of wine; Goleta’s Mercury Lounge has reopened; Santa Barbara County Vintners Association abandoned its BID bid; Zaca Creek restaurants.
It was another strong week for Santa Barbara real estate, with other notable sales including a penthouse in Jeff Shelton’s El Andaluz condominium, a boxy peach thing in Campanil, and an eccentric compound near Butterfly Beach.
Other recent news: Isla Vista continues to hold the county back; the UCSB editor monitoring the lack of social distancing; Santa Barbara water rates to go up; Mission Canyon trail reopens on weekends; Randall Road Debris Basin funding comes through; Coffee with a Black Guy founder James Joyce III is being encouraged to run for mayor; Westmont bought a building downtown.
Plus: Occhiali is closing its downtown store; Coda Studio’s home decor shop debuts today in Montecito; Santa Barbara Museum of Art has reopened; Thousand Steps and Andrée Clark Bird Refuge are planning to have some work done; how to complain about the cannabis stink.
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The week’s top price reductions also include a new-build manor in central Montecito, a former Finnish ambassador’s fanciful throwback, and a mini-compound near the Museum of Natural History.
Other recent news: A mosquito with West Nile Virus was found here; Santa Barbara schools to return to in-person learning in January; Lucky Brand closed its State Street store; Solvang recall effort.
The week’s notable new listings also include a brawny contemporary in Foothill, a likely teardown on five acres in Hope Ranch, and six thousand square feet of questionable choices.
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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