FIRST LOOK: THE ROOFTOP BAR PROPOSED FOR THE FUNK ZONE
After having decided to rehabilitate 11 Anacapa rather than tear it down, the developer is now asking to add a contemporary roof deck to the old building and a slick black box of a parking structure nearby. The renderings have proved divisive.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Still no word from Chick-fil-A.
••• Hook & Press introduced its first-ever savory donut.
••• Dimmed hopes for Tyger Tyger’s reopening.
••• Suggestions sought for a good rehearsal dinner venue.
••• New all-day restaurant in Solvang.
••• Pico is getting into the burger game.
••• Full of Life Flatbread’s heartstrings.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• County hospitals are preparing to shift to “crisis care.”
••• Committee to recommend that Santa Barbara ban natural gas in new construction.
••• School district might temporarily eliminate D and F grades because of the pandemic.
••• The man whose house was electrified.
••• Cannabis shop opening in Goleta.
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HOT PROPERTY
New year, new crop of closings—including a Montecito villa that went for $13 million off the initial asking price; a hacienda on 18.8 acres in the Santa Ynez Valley, a mix of the fabulous and mundane on E. Mountain Drive, a Hope Ranch house with dungeon, and more.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Pura Luna Apothecary is moving to a larger space.
••• “Peace & Quiet” at Sullivan Goss (including the above painting by Chris Peters).
••• New online vintage shop based in Santa Barbara.
••• Idyll Mercantile is teasing its new location.
••• More cannabis in Carp.
••• An outing to La Purisima Mission State Historic Park.
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