October 28, 2025
Tag: Radius Commercial Real Estate
Santa Barbara Airport to Reintroduce San Diego Flights
Plus: Fitness studio opening on the Mesa; international eyewear brand coming to State Street; mysterious tenant for a big Funk Zone building; the return of Visit Santa Barbara's lodging discounts for locals; Coast Village pet store closed; mulling a Santa Barbara guidebook; annual plea to avoid fake spider webs. 27
May 29, 2024
August 6, 2023
MarBorg Industries Wants to Build an 18,774-Square-Foot Headquarters
Plus: Domecíl is moving; harborside building plans to sell food; big multi-family development in the works at Ortega and Anacapa; Valerie June to play the Lobero; mixed-used project proposed for lower Anacapa; Prevail Conditioning moved to upper State Street; the city bought a building on E. Anapamu; Invoca's former State Street offices have been subleased; leasing update on The Post, a.k.a. Las Aves. 6
May 10, 2023
A Bunch of Park Lane’s Beloved Eucalyptus Trees Have Been Cut Down
Plus: New documentary about Spencer the Gardener; Ferris Orthodontic Group appears to have bought a building; Elings Park nature walks with the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden; Goleta's Orient Hand Laundry has closed; Santa Barbara Airport makes life easier for people with hidden disabilities. 15
August 23, 2022
July 29, 2022
November 8, 2021
Mollie’s Restaurant Has Closed
More food news: Who's opening a brewery in the Funk Zone; a new name for the Corazón Cocina spinoff; another option for recycling wine corks; the De La Vina Starbucks appears to be happening; Carp Kitchen & Grocery is now offering dinner; Santa Barbara chosen as test city for surplus-food app; live performances at the Blue Owl; Hochaya Tea House opened in Goleta; what's up and running at Solvang's PARc Place redevelopment. 5
June 11, 2021
The Marshalls Building Is on the Market Again
Plus: Rosewood Miramar Beach's fashion promotion; Toad the Wet Sprocket and Judy Collins at the Lobero Theatre; Chelsea Handler at the Santa Barbara Bowl; revised design for the airport addition; Park Lane lot division; Shopkeepers hosts Shand this Saturday; Gaviota rest areas closed in both directions till February. 1
February 11, 2021
June 8, 2020
Burning Questions
- What Are Those Old Buildings at the Corner of Castillo and Montecito Streets?
- When Will the Coast Village Road Medians Be Completed?
- What’s This Scaffold Structure on Las Positas Road?
- Why Does Street Striping Take So Long to Happen?
- Why Do Rocket Launches Look the Way They Do?
- How Is the San Ysidro Debris Basin Designed to Work?
- What’s This Building on Helena Avenue?
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Renaming the post office and spending $500 k to do it. Is another great example tax payers money being wasted. — Dan Kolodziejski
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