Glad that there are new owners of Chase that have actual food and restaurant experience. The food has always been good but albeit too rich for my tastes, and the place needs a cleaning and remodel, badly. It went downhill after the last owners bought it a few years back. I think they tripled their seating during Covid, providing a undeserved lifeline to a place that by most measures, was poorly run and on its last legs.
All that aside, Chase and SB will never been the same after we lost Todd last year. RIP to the best bartender and all around good guy. We miss you Toddy!
Amen
As a fellow Democrat I kindly ask that you take your political banter elsewhere. This is not the place for it. Perhaps Facebook or NextDoor will get you the interaction you’re looking for.
I will not stand idily by why some FoxNews watching republitards continue to develop our city for their own personnel gain. These right wing racists think they can come in here with there monster trucks and build whatever they want with no regard for greenhouse gas emissions? They pay zero taxes and listen to Rush Limbaugh all day and we cannot allow these idoits to destroy are city. It takes a village and we must stop them.
These rants read like troll posts.
I agree with you, Nancy. They could build it in one of several styles that are different to the everywhere-already-nouveau-“Spanish” without deviating from what’s local and fitting with the area. There are historic loft type buildings in the area as well as interestingly textured industrial buildings that could serve as inspiration. Instead they’ve gone for a cheap and no-relation look to SB, ultra 2010s, and which everyone will want to tear down a few years from now. It looks like crap and that’s me being nice.
The building style will absolutely not age well.
Nancy - agreed. I'm curious what the ABR said in the meeting about how "un-SB" looks.
And a pool on site? Give me a break... the ocean is literally steps away.
Nancy, I agree! Why are developers/architects so intent on chipping away at the SB "look"? If they want to build random buildings that could be Anywhere USA go to Ventura or Oxnard or really any other town in California. This hotel design does not belong in SB.
So much for consistency of the SB city architecture. The new hotel building style looks out of place and gentrified. Not saying it's a bad design but it surely doesn't fit in with SB.
Cat Cora = blow torch or silent partner moving on?
Ahh yes, back when being anti-war, pro-free speech and supporting individual freedoms was a very liberal position, fast forward to today and now it's a very right-wing (or "republitard" as SB Democrat puts it) position. Crazy how times have changed.
SB Democrat, are you aware we're like 60-70% Dem here in SB, and the Democrats control a super majority in our State legislature and the governors office? Those watching Fox News aren't the idiots - those who resort to name calling and regurgitating DNC talking points/generalizations without an ounce of independent thinking on the other hand....
The Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury is part of a California constitutionally-mandated system designed to be a watchdog of local governments. The system works, but only if we volunteer and pay heed to the reports published!
https://sbcgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/CyberSecurity.pdf
https://sbcgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Cannabis.pdf
You're absolutely right. (Thanks!) DeGeneres and de Rossi paid $5.4 million for the house last April and sold at a loss.
If Ellen and Portia bought it in April of 2020 who paid $5.4 mm for it in 2022? It looks to me like they took a haircut on this one selling for $5.1??
Name calling craziness is not illuminating in the least Get some help
The adult book store on state and Gutierrez is where I went to Jr high!
It was the “Free School “ in the 70’s - a school without walls - a time of Peace ☮️ marches , banana bread and transcendental meditation ????
Anyone remember this random fact ?
Regarding the two on one hotel project, wonder how the housekeeping staff will reply when asked in a common area for something by a guest and it is the "wrong" staff. % of potential rentable area for a manager is curious. Unsure if the building style will age well, the effect on surrounding future construction in acceptable style will be a let down for the zone.
FYI the adult book store on State and Gutierrez is where I went to Jr High in the 70’s
It was the “Free School” a school without walls - a time of peace marches , banana bread, and transcendental meditation - ☮️
Let me know what you find out about the free school in SB - ✌️
Tax revenues are lower because the rich republitards do not pay their fare share. They are FoxNews watching idoits who drive around in their large SUVs and emiting greenhouse gases that are heating the planet. I will not stand for there stupidity and I will always vote Democrat.
It didn’t; someone made a typo. It sold for $2.4 million.
Wow, take it easy on the MSM Kool-Aid. You should get out more and talk to real people rather than listen to whatever sensationalism is being spewed on TV for the sole purpose of inciting you so you keep watching/clicking and make them more money. Amazing how in the same sentence you can say "we cannot take any more greenhouse gas emissions.... or the world will cease to existing as we know it" and "moronic right wingers to stupid to know this". Truly amazing.
Why did mesa fixer just sell for $240,000?
My college friend opened up Moped City in the mid 1970’s next door to the adult bookstore. Yep, it’s been there forever. I guess Joe’s is another longstanding State st business although they were in a different location on State back then.
