WALK WITH ME
With its hillside location, streets that split, marvelous stonework, and oodles of quirk, the Lower Riviera is a quintessential Santa Barbara neighborhood—and yet few visitors explore it.
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Stately Padaro Lane beachfront for $46.9 million; an interior designer’s weekend retreat in Birnam Wood; Ennisbrook casita for $6 million; a piece of history in Hope Ranch; the West Mesa house that looks like a homestead; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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ODDS & ENDS
••• Studio X’s second Pilates studio opens this week.
••• Update on Sonoma Fit’s downtown gym.
••• Local hotel occupancy and rates dipped in August.
••• Asher Market has expanded to Santa Ynez.
••• Belong Church leased a State Street space.
••• Cabrillo Boulevard improvements.
••• John Gibson paintings at Caldwell Snyder (above).
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