The former Macy's building (now called the Ortega Building, as it takes of most of the first block of West Ortega Street), is being repurposed as Class A office space. The building is undergoing a total makeover, and the...
The Enterprise Fish Company, a long time seafood restaurant at 225 State Street in Santa Barbara that was shuttered by the pandemic, has been sold to new owners who plan to convert the building into office space.
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More than a third of the stores at La Cumbre Plaza on upper State Street remain empty, as the pandemic has worsened the economic environment for retail stores. Of the forty-four stores in the main part of the shopping...
According to Radius Commercial Real Estate, the vacancy rate for office space rose to 7.7% in the third quarter of 2020, the highest rate in seventeen years. The Covid pandemic has obviously impacted demand for offices, as many, if...
Vacant storefronts on State Street were already increasing when the Covid pandemic struck. Since then, many more stores in Santa Barbara have closed permanently. It's unclear how long it will take, if ever, for all the spaces to get...
A Carpinteria residential area will be gaining a new office building as the City Council recently voted to approve the rezoning process necessary to change the land previously designated as residential. Council members Quinn Sawyer and Debra Soula were...
A mudslide occurred late Sunday night after a series of heavy rain storms in the region. The disaster site was a construction area for a housing development project. The construction crew had already finished work for the day, so...
