Newsletter: May 14

ODDS & ENDS
••• Opening date for the Linden Square complex in Carpinteria.
••• Winning makeover on Garden Street (above).
••• Changes to a busy block downtown.
••• Mācher’s Santa Ynez shop opens this week.
••• Mad Dogs & Englishmen is returning to Montecito.
••• Another outpost of the Well.
••• Upper De La Vina Street to be one-way during bridge replacement.
••• “Special parties” in the works at the Magic Castle Cabaret.
••• A better look at the Hilton Santa Barbara’s proposed expansion.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Spanish Colonial compound for $10.6 million; Provençal near the Upper Village; equestrian property east of Los Olivos; textbook 2020s spec reno; in the San Roque spider web; Summerland duplex; and more. See what sold—and for how much.

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BURNING QUESTIONS
“There are old wooden pilings in Arroyo Burro Creek, just up from Hendry’s Beach where it parallels the parking lot. They look like they could have supported a road bridge or some kind of pier. Any idea what they were for? I’ve been wondering forever!” The answer.

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