FOOD STUFF
••• Bibi Ji’s new location opens this week (above).
••• Stella Mare’s will close at the end of the year.
••• Seven Bar & Kitchen is said to be opening very soon.
••• Opening forecasts for four new Goleta restaurants.
••• Local chain in talks for the Derf’s Café space.
••• Updates on Pizza Mizza and The Palms.
••• Filipino feast at the Inn at Mattei’s Tavern.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Brawny Supertuscan on a private lane for $11.1 million; the one with the huge, glamorous closet; three-acre Yankee Farm property likely to get subdivided; 1938 four-bedroom in Samarkand; 1941 Moody Sisters house; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Hidden Oaks Golf Course is reportedly for sale again (photo courtesy Radius Commercial Real Estate).
••• Alo Yoga and Dollar Tree are coming to State Street.
••• Full closure of Highway 154.
••• San Ysidro Ranch’s pool house expansion.
••• Construction to start on the Santa Barbara Junior High School Multiuse Path Project.
••• Highway 101 off-ramp opening and on-ramp closure.
••• New renderings of the big apartment complex coming to De La Vina Street.
••• James Perse on Coast Village Road.
••• Art exhibit about migrant agricultural workers.
••• A bonus vanity plate.
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