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Santa Barbara development offers multiple housing types and retail spaces
The Orchard in Santa Barbara, Calif., reimagines former agricultural land along Hollister Avenue as a neighborhood featuring diverse housing types and community‑serving retail. The plan blends senior, affordable, market‑rate, and for‑sale housing under a cohesive agricultural theme, with varied home typologies positioned around a central retail plaza.
Noozhawk
CommUnify Buys Santa Maria Building for Child Care Services
CommUnify has acquired the former Grace Lutheran Preschool building at 420 E. Fesler St. in Santa Maria. The property will be used for a future child care and early education campus. The nonprofit has provided Head Start across Santa Barbara County since 1967. It purchased the Santa Maria site for...
Santa Barbara Independent
UC Santa Barbara to House Faculty, Staff on Haley Street
This article was underwritten in part by the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund for Social Justice, a proud, innovative supporter of local news. To make a contribution go to sbcan.org/journalism_fund. UC Santa Barbara is an Eastside housing project’s newest and only tenant. On August 10, the university announced in an email...
Coastal View
What type of housing do we need?
In a recent Carpinteria City Council meeting, there was discussion of a proposal to convert a vacant office complex into 31 residential units, with every one of those units having market-rate rent. It was an interesting concept, but in a moment that is emblematic of one of the biggest planning issues this city faces, a city council member stated, “We’ve got an empty building sitting there, and we need housing. It makes a lot of sense.”
MyUtahNews
Southern California's Housing Market Is Moving Again, and Rodeo Realty Is Staffing Up to Meet It
Beverly Hills brokerage adds 23 agents in July as buyer competition returns to the Valley, the Westside and beyond. BEVERLY HILLS, CA, UNITED STATES, August 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Southern California's housing market spent two years in a holding pattern. It is moving again, and one of the region's largest independent brokerages is expanding to meet it.
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More on the Nordstrom Residential Conversion
••• More info on the conversion of the former Nordstrom store (17 W. Canon Perdido Street) into 112 apartments. —Noozhawk. ••• Goleta “residents are furious after learning a local gun shop [Goodland Guns] is set to officially open its doors next month on Hollister Avenue next to a preschool and daycare facility.” Isn’t that rather literal-minded? Do people really buy a gun and shoot whatever is next door? —Noozhawk.
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A Quiet Kind of Rare: Bonnymede’s Largest Floor Plan
At Bonnymede, where units tend to share walls and floor plans, 1300 Plaza Pacifica breaks the pattern—a configuration so rare within the community that only a handful were ever built. It is, without exaggeration, the largest layout the community has to offer—three bedrooms, three baths, single-level living throughout, and a rare kind of quiet that comes from having no one pressing in from either side.
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New Menswear Store Coming to the Funk Zone
••• The former Shopkeepers space in the Funk Zone (137 Anacapa Street) will become an outpost of The Men’s Den, from Kariella‘s Amara Bessa. ••• Elsewhere in the neighborhood, Scenery Florals, currently at The Post, is the floral designer taking over the green building on Yanonali Street. Look for it to open in September.
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Hidden Montecito Retreat in a Serene and Private Setting
Some homes announce themselves. This one is discovered. Tucked away along an easily missed private lane off Romero Canyon, the gated and secure Montecito residence at 768 Winding Creek Lane offers exceptional privacy, with no neighboring homes in sight and approximately 250 acres of open farmland adjoining the property. Located within the highly sought-after Montecito Union School District, the home feels remarkably secluded while remaining close to Montecito’s villages, beaches, dining, and amenities. Come take a look at the open house tomorrow (Wednesday, August 5) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Santa Barbara Independent
With $137K in the Bank, Eric Friedman Holds 3-1 Edge over Kristen Sneddon in Santa Barbara Mayor’s Race Fundraising
This story first appeared at SB Newsmakers. City Council member Eric Friedman has quietly raised nearly $150,000 for his campaign to be Santa Barbara’s next mayor, giving him an early 3-to-1 fundraising advantage over chief rival Kristen Sneddon, campaign finance records show. Besides Friedman’s big haul, the biggest surprise...
Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara Orchard Housing Project Receives Prestigious Planning and Design Award
Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 31, 2026 — The Orchard, a proposed 65-acre master-planned community bordered by Hollister Avenue and Highway 217, has won Best on the Boards, Mixed-Use Project at the 63rd annual Gold Nugget Awards. The Gold Nugget awards include more than 800 entries in the national and international competition held at the PCBC Conference in San Diego California.
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The Opening Date and Menu at Ancora Osteria in the Upper Village
••• Ancora Osteria officially opens August 13 in the former Via Vai space in Montecito’s Upper Village. Here’s a sneak peek at the menu, which may change—and will definitely look prettier—by the time the restaurant debuts. ••• Quel dommage! Merci will end dinner service...
Ventura County Reporter
Jury Trial for Bribery Case: T.O. building inspector charged with soliciting bribe in exchange for city building permit
A bribery case involving a city of Thousand Oaks building inspector is headed to trial after a judge heard evidence at a July 22 preliminary hearing. Evidence presented before Ventura County Superior Court Judge Julia Snyder showed Ray Allen Villanueva III, 59, and a co-defendant Jimmy Daniel Coronado, 44, solicited a bribe from a contractor in return for a city building permit. Judge Snyder decided there was probable cause to bind the defendants over for a jury trial, which has a higher standard of evidence, proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
VC Star | Ventura County Star
Owner of historic ranch near Santa Paula faces lawsuit, bankruptcy
One of Ventura County’s biggest agricultural landowners is bankrupt and facing a civil prosecution accusing the family of illegally altering streams, building unpermitted dams and ponds and otherwise harming the natural environment in a canyon west of Santa Paula. The Guzman family owns Hampton Canyon Ranch, an 1,800-acre cattle property on Wheeler Canyon Road, in the hills between Ventura and Santa Paula. In May, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office filed suit against the Guzmans and their company, Santa Paula Hay & Grain and Ranches, alleging violations of the California Fish and Game code at Hampton Canyon Ranch and other properties nearby. The lawsuit accuses the Guzmans of changing and obstructing the course of streams on their properties, building dams and a reservoir, grading and altering stream channels, removing vegetation and placing fill and other materials in and around the waterways, all without the proper permits. Those changes can impact wildlife habitat and increase the risk of floods, mudslides and wildfires, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko told The Star. "These are unprecedented and profound violations that I have not seen in my five and a half years as the district attorney," he said. "We’re talking about more than 1,700
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Harrison Street Sells 136-Unit Independent Living Community in California
OXNARD, Calif. — Harrison Street has completed the sale of Clearwater at Riverpark, a 136-unit independent living community located in Oxnard, approximately 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Built in 2018, the property totals 153,297 square feet. Amenities at the community include multiple dining venues, a swimming pool, fitness...