ODDS & ENDS
••• Lookout Park has expanded (above).
••• Hotel deals for locals and their guests.
••• Light + Home’s downtown pop-up.
••• Left-turn lane in the works for State and Mission.
••• Google paid $16.8 million for Goleta land.
••• Another hotel changed hands.
••• Ojai house tour.
••• Flamenco in a historic adobe.
••• Talk by the James Webb Space Telescope’s lead project scientist.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Plaza Rubio house for $750,000 over asking price; Mediterranean on Lilac Drive; 1953 house “in a state of disrepair” on 5.53 acres in outer Carpinteria; Loma Alicia townhome off-market; 1958 Mesa house in “mostly original condition”; Lower Riviera three-bedroom; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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BURNING QUESTIONS
“We’d love to find out the status of the vacant lot at Milpas and De La Guerra. It was a gas station decades ago, and I thought it was being decontaminated—but the process seems stalled. It’s such a key corner for the Eastside.”
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