ODDS & ENDS
••• AIA Santa Barbara’s annual architecture tour is coming up (photo by Jim Bartsch).
••• Juniper’s new Summerland shop has opened.
••• Santa’s Convenience Store debuts today.
••• Taylor Swift’s concert film to screen at the Arlington.
••• The reason for the black tarps on the East Beach dunes.
••• An honor to be nominated for “Best of Santa Barbara.”
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HOT PROPERTY
Last week’s sales: Toro Canyon house with Chumash restrictions for $7.995 million; upper San Roque four-bedroom for $5 million; Hope Ranch teardown; a pair of Butterfly Beach townhomes; farmhouse-style fixer in the Lower Village; 1930 house on Alameda Padre Serra; and more. See what sold—and for how much.
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