FOOD STUFF
••• First look at the menus for Alessia Patisserie & Cafe (above).
••• Woodland Hills restaurant is opening an outpost on State Street.
••• Romanti-Ezer has closed.
••• Signs of life at Corazón Cocina in the Funk Zone.
••• Checking in with chef Justin West and his Market Forager business.
••• Tasty tortilla chips from Sweet Wheel Farms.
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HOT PROPERTY
Notable sales include a Mesa oceanfront compound $10.375 million; a Coast Village sprawler; two off-market deals in Hope Ranch; a house with a roof deck you could land a plane on; Hedgerow property with contemporary interiors; and more. See what sold and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• A snazzy upgrade in downtown Carpinteria (above).
••• The Montecito Club is getting a 1,100-square-foot “golf simulator facility.”
••• $2 million price chop for a Shepard Mesa estate.
••• 48-unit low-income housing proposed for N. La Cumbre Road.
••• Nine-unit complex proposed for S. Voluntario Street.
••• New bus terminal in Goleta.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara may put the homeless up in a motel for four months.
••• QAD is being bought for $2 billion.
••• The county is releasing cannabis applications and scoresheets.
••• Inside architect Robin Donaldson’s 12,000-square-foot live-work compound.
••• Leather goods company Parker Clay is growin.
••• So De Mel swimsuit showroom is closing.
••• Progress toward decommissioning two oil wells off Goleta.
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