HOT PROPERTY
Just when you think the market might be calming down, it roars back to new heights: another $125 million in real estate changed hands last week.
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FOOD STUFF
••• Aperitivo is a welcome addition to the restaurant scene.
••• Why the apparent new name of Paradise Cafe makes sense.
••• Blackbird’s downshift of a food menu.
••• Everytable won’t be opening this year.
••• Two more pop-ups at Third Window Brewing.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Santa Barbara County is stuck in the red tier.
••• Local voter turnout is at 91 percent and counting.
••• The News-Press won’t accept Trump’s defeat.
••• This year’s Parade of Lights at the harbor is canceled.
••• Final Cat Canyon oil proposal withdrawn.
••• Former baseball star buys $5.7 million Santa Barbara spread (above).
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MORE HOT PROPERTY
Ellen Degeneres and Portia De Rossi have sold yet another high-end property—this one after just three-and-a-half weeks.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Betsey Johnson is popping up in the Funk Zone.
••• Four new shops at La Arcada Plaza.
••• NS Ceramics has moved.
••• Wise Guys Barber & Shave on W. Victoria.
••• “No camping” sign.
••• A bone to pick with Skyview Los Alamos.
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PRICE CUTS
There were only five notable price adjustments this week, including a cool contemporary backing off an attempted Covid bump, 10 acres above San Roque, a vivacious Spanish house in Mission Canyon, and a sprawler outside town.
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Recent Comments
They can't even get the metro link linked! — Christine!A
Exactly this. I haven't heard any realistic alternatives yet. — BrR
The land is privately owned and zoned for development. What operates on it today exists at the discretion of the owners, and that can change… — BrR
Those tract homes are tacky and not good enough for precious Carpinteria. Carp deserves much better than those eye sores. — KK
It’s not vacant parcel: it’s a beautiful co-op organic farm, Farm Cart Organics, that feeds our community, and a farm school, Carpinteria Children’s Farm, and… — Sarah
Respectfully, there was never a version of development on this site that Carpinteria was going to welcome with open arms. That's the problem. Even if… — EM
My comment on your post here last June: https://www.sitelinesb.com/nearly-200-housing-units-proposed-for-the-carpinteria-bluffs/ “the developer is saying it’ll use the density bonus to accommodate the housing instead—and retain the… — SkyG
I’d definitely prefer a hotel with restaurant, farm, grounds, etc. than Orange County tract homes. — BW
For anyone curious, the "farm resort" initially proposed—and intensely resisted by Carpinteria residents—is described in this post: https://www.sitelinesb.com/99-room-farm-resort-proposed-for-the-carpinteria-bluffs/ — Erik Torkells
The state is going to force housing on communities that don't plan for it. Carpinteria can either shape what gets built here or wait for… — BrR