Measure A can shift region into fast lane
Traffic continues to be a big problem for communities along the Highway 101 corridor. No-growth advocates in places like Oxnard want to constrict it through draconian limits on the number of cars “allowed” through certain intersections. We’ll have more to say about the evils of Measure V below. No-tax advocates want to stop projects like Read More →
CFF gets $125,000 grant
Computers for Families has received a $125,000 challenge grant from the Dworman Foundation and Bacara Resort & Spa in Goleta. The challenge will match, dollar-for-dollar, any donation made to the Computers for Families Sustainability Campaign in the next six months. If successfully matched by donations from the community, The Bacara Challenge will complete the $4 Read More →
Somera buys Goleta site
Somera Capital Management, a private equity fund manager, headquartered in Santa Barbara, has acquired an eight-acre site in Goleta from Verizon. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Three buildings occupy the property, a 25,000 square-foot-office building and two warehouse buildings totaling about 24,000 square feet. Verizon will continue to occupy half of the property Read More →
El Encanto names new GM
Bruno Brunner has been named general manager of El Encanto Hotel in Santa Barbara. Brunner takes charge during the Riviera-area property’s more than $75 million restoration. Orient-Express officials, who own El Encanto, said Brunner is one of the copany’s most experienced managers. The 92-guestrooms and suites property has been a landmark since 1918. It is Read More →
Joy of cooking – Business teaches urban-style skills in San Luis
Within a bland industrial park on the edges of San Luis Obispo lies a converted warehouse, which is home to The Garden’s Kitchen, the complex’s most unlikely tenant. A couple of times a week, owner Ashleigh Hutchison teaches themed cooking classes in what she calls “an urban dwelling where friends and food come together.” But Read More →
Campus housing in the Tri-Counties continues to grow by leaps and bound
On the Central Coast, there’s one big exception to the industry-wide slowdown of the residential real estate market: university housing. Area colleges are planning, building or opening dormitory projects that could add more than 8,500 beds to the region’s student housing stock and 2,500 faculty and staff residential units. Cal Poly California Polytechnic State University, Read More →
Forgotten children
Four hundred children will stand on the Sunken Garden Lawn of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse on Oct. 29 with a message to the community: We need your help. The children will be life-size cardboard cutouts of foster children as part of the Forgotten Children Project, an effort by the national CASA, or Court Read More →
