More food news: Funk Zone tasting room for rent; recommendations for fancy cheese and bento boxes; Labor Day weekend barbecue in Los Alamos; Bibi Ji has begun selling wine online.
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Plus: New book of Studio William Hefner’s work; the city’s grammatically incorrect electronic signs; state-operated Covid-19 testing site moved to Goleta; curve warnings installed along Route 192 this week; patches to help the fight to save Pine Mountain.
Other recent news: California has a new system to determine reopening schedule; 13 schools submitted waivers to reopen; UCSB moves almost all classes online and cancels all events and sports; prescribed burn at the UCSB lagoon; UCLA Health’s expansion into this area; oil platform update; Carpinteria city council candidates; school-board candidate Virginia Alvarez.
The market remains red-hot: the week’s 13 noteworthy sales include a midcentury landmark and a run on the Ennisbrook enclave.
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The week’s top price adjustments are mostly downward—including a funky Lower Riviera triplex and an architectural statement in east Montecito—but things being what they are these days, a couple went up.
Plus: Marvelous photos of owls from the Ojai Raptor Center; Space NK’s Montecito store has closed; Westerlay Orchids showroom sales to benefit Carp students in need; suggestion about Siteline’s real estate coverage.
Ten noteworthy properties new to market, including the Manana estate designed by Francis Underhill; a thin slice of Padaro Lane beachfront; Jeff Shelton in low-key mode; postmodern whimsy in Summerland; and a 1922 adobe.
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?
Recent Comments
Totally agree. The Santa Barbara Company is the BEST for finding unique, special gifts. Love this place and the staff. — laura
Sad. We enjoyed the food & service every time we dined there. — Alisa
I totally agree and came to write a similar comment. Deal of the century right there. There’s something we don’t know. — BW
The Santa Barbara Company has so many wonderful products! Wholeheartedly agree with this endoresment! — Erik
It's a shame...I actually can't believe Local outlasted Bar Lou. I feel like Montecito needs to figure out what it wants to be. The only… — Swan
I deleted your second comment because you made it under a different name, as if someone else is agreeing with you. If you'd like to… — Erik Torkells
4347 Marina Dr selling for $1000 sq ft seems off. There had to be something funky going on. — Pete
The owner of the Harbor Restaurant is not only a real estate agent he’s also a real estate attorney. Is he really trying to tell… — FoodieSB
And the most authentic and genuine store of all “The Santa Barbara Company” not even mentioned … — Jane Phila Rogers
Just went to the Copper Coffee Pot today and the Caserta Pizza was just as good as when it was L’Antica. Yay! — ElizabethW