FOOD STUFF
••• First look inside Montecito’s new vegan market.
••• Local restaurateurs will run a restaurant in the Mollie’s space.
••• Update on the Kitchen restaurant incubator on State Street.
••• Padaro Beach Grill has temporarily closed after a fire.
••• Chomp on the Rocks has pressed pause.
••• Middle Eastern restaurant debuts at La Cumbre Plaza.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales include a Sea Meadow house that has doubled in value in five years; a 1917 house by Frances T. Underhill; an unbuilt four-bedroom in the Boulders enclave; a 1951 house up near Westmont; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• First look inside a Jeff Shelton farmhouse (above).
••• The bridge in the Casa Dorinda Open Space has been replaced.
••• Caffe Luxxe was the victim of a smash-and-grab.
••• Renderings for a sexy Brutalist house in Carpinteria.
••• Anacapa Architecture is moving to a State Street storefront.
••• A new chapter for the former Avis building in the Funk Zone.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Is something big brewing at La Cumbre Plaza? (Photo courtesy Caitlin Hensel.)
••• Record-breaking rainfall in Santa Barbara County.
••• An updated storm impact consideration map was released.
••• Statewide indoor mask mandate.
••• Santa Barbara moves toward regulating sidewalk vendors.
••• Work completed on a Summerland Beach oil well.
••• Decommissioning of Platform Holly has restarted.
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