Downtown retail study recommends ways to revitalize State Street
Addressing loitering and panhandling and encouraging more mixed-use developments that include residential are among the recommendations to revitalize State Street in a retail strategy study released by the Downtown Organization of Santa Barbara on June 9. Seattle-based retail consulting firm Downtown Works said that loitering by homeless people is perhaps the biggest challenge facing State Read More →
Read More →Dubroff: Pacific Coast Business Times takes civic duty seriously
As a journalist, and a mainstream journalist at that, I’m deeply concerned about the increasing hostility between our profession and the public. So, in an effort to demonstrate that journalists are also functioning members of society, I’m going to provide an update on the Pacific Coast Business Times and some of its civic efforts. On Read More →
Read More →SBCC president cuts college’s deficit, looks to future
Updated at 10:40 a.m. June 8: Santa Barbara City College President Anthony Beebe spent his first year on the job closing a $9 million budget gap and now he is looking for ways to preserve its No. 1 national ranking. In a state of the college talk to the Chamber of the Santa Barbara Region Read More →
Read More →TrackR releases new Bluetooth tracking device
TrackR released its newest Bluetooth tracking device, the TrackR Pixel, on June 5, which the Santa Barbara tech company said is smaller and cheaper than its TrackR Bravo and has an LED light to find items in the dark. About the size of a quarter, the Pixel retails for $24.99, around $5 cheaper than the Read More →
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Unemployment in Tri-Counties near all-time low
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Read More →‘Granny flat’ law may create more tri-county housing options
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Read More →Bank mergers leaving downtown spaces vacant
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