Dubroff: Leadership needed to solve downtown Santa Barbara’s woes
You might call this Santa Barbara’s summer of discontent. From a casual chat with friends in Ventura, to a breakfast talk at East Beach Grill, to dinner on the patio at Brent’s Deli in Westlake, to more formal conversations with retail and banking experts, the same issue keeps popping up. What’s going on with downtown Read More →
Santa Barbara investment firm buys more Colorado property
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Days of ‘build it and they will come’ are over
By Sarah Fischbach In marketing, we often talk about product, price, place and promotion when it comes to the elements of the marketing mix used to help decision makers assess their product against the competition for a successful launch in the marketplace. One of the areas of the marketing mix that has been experiencing a Read More →
State Street struggles while Ventura, SLO retailers thrive
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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 →
Isla Vista apartment projects sell for a combined $51.8M
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Investor-owners can get more out of retail property leases
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