WALK WITH ME
As with most neighborhoods around here, West Mesa is undergoing change. But the spirit of old Santa Barbara isn’t giving up the ghost just yet.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Hotel-like Hope Ranch house for $18.15 million; Hope Ranch house with a jumbo hot tub; an unbuilt house in Summerland for $9 million; midcentury project on the old Knapp estate; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• La Casa de Maria’s rebuilding appears to be stalled.
••• A possible explanation for the inactivity at Vons in Montecito.
••• New art show in the Funk Zone.
••• Book of Mormon and other shows in Broadway Santa Barbara’s 2022-2023 season.
••• The grim new outbuildings at Montecito Union School (above).
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