Tag: Parker Clay

January 5, 2025

Three Stores Are Closing (or Have Already Closed)

Plus: Is the new Soltara apartment building being converted to workforce housing?; huge building on N. Calle Cesar Chavez sells for $36.5 million; new owner of classic midcentury on Canon Perdido; more on the Garden Street rooftop sculpture; dental hygienist opening an office without a dentist. 3

December 11, 2024

Shop-Local Gift Guide, Part 4

The ridiculous, the sublime, and everything in between: gift-worthy suggestions from 18 more shops around town. 1

December 8, 2023

2023 Shop-Local Gift Guide, Part 3

Shopping online is boring! Shopping in person is fun! Go find great things for the people you care about at our many terrific independent stores.

December 2, 2023

2023 Shop-Local Gift Guide, Part 1

This holiday season—and year-round, really—make an effort to support Santa Barbara's wonderful independent shops. I’ve done some advance work, but get out there and have a look for yourself! 2

March 14, 2023

Another Shop Is Leaving State Street

Plus: Most frontcountry trails have reopened; Parker Clay's warehouse sale is this Saturday; two more Santa Barbara Bowl shows; San Ysidro Road northbound onramp to close for nearly two years; current-day photos added to the recent post of old buildings. 1

February 27, 2022

Parker Clay Is Having a Warehouse Sale

Plus: "Elite personal training studio" opening on De La Vina; photo of the sunflower sculptures coming to State Street; "Empty Mansions" author to share more Huguette Clark research; Hermosillo Road offramp to reopen on Tuesday; mysterious street marking. 1

June 29, 2021

Santa Barbara May Put the Homeless Up in a Motel for Four Months

Other recent news: QAD is being bought for $2 billion; the county is releasing cannabis applications and scoresheets; inside architect Robin Donaldson's 12,000-square-foot live-work compound; leather goods company Parker Clay is growing; So De Mel swimsuit showroom is closing; progress toward decommissioning two oil wells off Goleta. 3