Newsletter: November 3

HOT PROPERTY
It was another strong week for Santa Barbara real estate, with notable sales including a midcentury project that sold for $2 million over ask, a penthouse in Jeff Shelton’s El Andaluz condominium, a boxy peach thing in Campanil, and an eccentric compound near Butterfly Beach.

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FOOD STUFF
••• Tyger Tyger has pressed pause.
••• Accolades for Bettina, Bell’s, and Sushi Bar Montecito.
••• Better Burrito now available at Dart Coffee Co.
••• Aperitivo is offering retail bottles of wine.
••• Goleta’s Mercury Lounge has reopened.
••• Santa Barbara County Vintners Association abandoned its BID bid.
••• Zaca Creek restaurants.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• The Miramar resort is selling day passes.
••• “Secret Garden Market” and bake sale coming up in the Funk Zone.
••• Meeting about the plan to renovate Ortega Park.
••• Construction on Route 150.
••• Public input sought for a new fire station shared by Montecito and Carpinteria.
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NEWS ROUNDUP
••• Isla Vista continues to hold the county back.
••• The UCSB editor monitoring the lack of social distancing.
••• Santa Barbara water rates to go up.
••• Mission Canyon trail reopens on weekends.
••• Randall Road Debris Basin funding comes through.
••• Coffee with a Black Guy founder James Joyce III is being encouraged to run for mayor.
••• Westmont bought a building downtown.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Tourism development proposed on Santa Rosa Island (photo by Tim Hauf).
••• Occhiali is closing its downtown store.
••• Coda Studio’s home decor shop debuted in Montecito.
••• Santa Barbara Museum of Art has reopened.
••• Thousand Steps and Andrée Clark Bird Refuge are planning to have some work done.
••• How to complain about the cannabis stink.
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