October 7, 2025
Tag: The Knit Shop
Ten Percent of More Mesa Has Been Preserved from Development
Plus: Women's apparel brand Covet has opened in Victoria Court; public meetings about the Paseo Nuevo redevelopment; The Knit Shop moved a few doors away; vintage collective on State Street making progress; presentation about house history research; the annual Ojai Studio Artists Tour is this weekend; family classes in the works at The Painted Cabernet; phone-repair shop DropSmashFix has left town. 1
June 10, 2025
More on the Proposed Apartment Complex Behind the Mission
Plus: Repair of the Butterfly Beach steps; anti-Trump protest on Saturday; new shop and a relocation at Victoria Court; two new shops at The Post; this year's One805 Live! headliner; two more return appearances at the Santa Barbara Bowl; Opera Santa Barbara‘s 2025-26 season; is More Mesa at increased risk of development? 40
May 27, 2024
The Return of the Miramar Resort’s Swim Raft
Plus: An astute take on the State Street problem; the Knit Shop has opened; menswear shop Tendrel is moving within the Funk Zone; the new owner of the Ballard Inn; 52 units of affordable housing in the pipeline; some thoughts about the West Mesa house asking $7.7 million; more on the stone pine trees on E. Anapamu Street. 19
April 18, 2024
A Knitting Shop Is Opening Downtown
Plus: Moving sale at Eye of the Day in Carpinteria; a visit to antiquarian Lee Stanton's Upper Village shop; next year's dates for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival; opposition to El Capitan Canyon Resort's expansion plan; Opera Santa Barbara‘s 2024-2025 lineup. 3
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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