Our favorite is Masala Spice on Calle Real in Goleta. Working our way through their enticing menu.
No parking in a shared rooms hotel ? Wake up Santa Barbara before you totally bring down State Street.
Is this being converted with the intention of tax-payer funded housing for the homeless at premium rates? And... am I reading it correctly, that there will be no provision for parking-- I sure hope I'm wrong on that.
BW, I’ll agree the Anthropology interior was a very major remodel, the United California Bank exterior remodel in the 1980’s was what really made a difference in the outside look of this property
Recommendation for best current Indian restaurant
324 W Cabrillo. Toma Restaurant
That’s such a great building. I remember when it was revitalized so beautifully for the original SB Anthropologie. It’s been so sad to watch that area fall into decay. While I’d love to have seen some more housing instead of another hotel, at this point I support any coherent and thoughtful reuse of the building. I’m really over watching prime property turn into junky seasonal businesses like a Halloween store (and I love Halloween), or weird flimsy feeling operations like the clothing store operating in the unrenovated former Rite-Aid. That kind of stuff feels shabby and precarious and I’d barely put it one step above blight.
World war 111 is about to start, a large part of our population are worried about whether or not they’ll have a roof over their head, or a meal on their table. And in Montecito, you’re suing each other over… pickle ball courts. Um, yeah….
Not the first time a gym will be in that location at 530 State. Adam Shipley had Fueled sports performance there. Pretty sure that is where Jenny Shatzle got her start.
The city is still working on getting the most current plans online, but in the meantime, you can see the plans as presented during the city council meeting of February 14. It starts at 17:40. https://www.youtube.com/live/dq7svVqEaWo
Lawsuits over pickleball courts? Oh yes! 109 Rametto vs Montecito Club. The clubs courts were allegedly built without permits directly disturbing 109 Rametto (just North of the courts). At one point the owner of 109 stated he would not back down until the courts were removed.
Bravo, Alexis and Josh! We needed a shop like this.
When I need something, since live on the Westside, I try San Andres Hardware first (trying to shop local), then head to Home Improvement Center if I can’t find what I need. Having Channel City Lumber close by will be a good thing.
definitely a livestock trough
Shirley, you must be joking. . .
The real estate agent never mentions pool in his marketing description. He doesn't mention that "trough" at all. I found the description to be straight forward and accurate.
Do not use my full name as I have received some threats from challenging Ty Warner on his application to alter the land use restriction on the Coral Casino. He is holding the reopening the Coral Casino, closed for 3 years, hostage to altering the 87+ year private club restriction on Coral property to allow a public restaurant. While some members support his requested change based on some unenforceable promises he has made, there are many members who oppose his application because they find Mr Warner untrustworthy and are afraid to come forward publicly for fear of retribution. The ball is in his court to work out a compromise with members or go forward with the legal process.
There is San Andres Hardware at the corner of San Andres and Micheltorena. It is quite well supplied.
Was Weston's Camera Shop long ago.
Crocker Bank was at the corner of Carrillo and State where Amazon is now located.
You got it!
Notary shop on upper state street
The reason the houses on Sherwood are “newer” is that every house but one was burned down in the Painted Cave Fire on June 27, 1990. We lived in a cottage behind a main house on Sherwood and lost everything but our cats that night. I was only able to save them because a sheriff’s deputy compassionately let me through the blockade at Hi-Time around 5pm. The air was thick with smoke by then, a fire also having started at the dump a short while before the Painted Cave fire roared down the mountain and jumped the 101, and by midnight, almost 500 structures from San Antonio Ranch to Hope Ranch were gone, including most on Sherwood and some on El Sueno. (Also, El Sueno and Calle Real used to be open to through traffic.) As a side note, we lost one of the best restaurants around, The Philadelphia House, on Hollister. Finally, it’s important to remember that this was arson (purposefully started on Painted Cave Road off Hwy 154 on a hot, Santa Ana night) and murder, since a woman was killed in the fire, not to mention the many horses and wildlife in the way of its path that night.
How did those over the top and ludicrous descriptions become the default? I really don’t get it. I lived in the UK and property descriptions there are extremely straight forward and honest. When I read listings here they just give off sketchy huckster vibes.
Calling a livestock trough a pool certainly is a new stretch for real estate agents... Then again, they tend to stretch the meaning of almost every word to fit their god-awful narratives.
