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Voice Magazine: Music Academy of the West To Open Education Center in Downtown Santa Barbara
June 5, 2025 -
Noozhawk: UCSB Purchases Vacant Lot From Friendship Manor to Build Housing
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Noozhawk: Sephora Moving to New Space with State Street Storefront
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PacBiz Times: Google’s breaththrough “Willow” quantum chip developed in Goleta
December 16, 2024 -
Noozhawk: TechTopia Shows Off Innovation and Research of Industry, UCSB Labs
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The Current: UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded “BioFoundry” on exceptional microbes
August 29, 2024 -
PacBiz Times: Commercial real estate legend Steve Hayes retires
June 24, 2024 -
Santa Barbara Talks: Business Leaders Say Downtown Assessment District Could Fix ‘Broken’ State Street
February 13, 2024 -
Noozhawk: Validation Ale to expand
September 8, 2023 -
Noozhawk: New Tenant Replaces Zoom in downtown Santa Barbara
September 8, 2023 -
Noozhawk: Inogen, Umbra Space On the Move in Commercial Real Estate Shakeup
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Noozhawk: Santa Barbara Public Market Booming with New Restaurants, Art Exhibits
July 28, 2023 -
Independent: UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory Awarded $18 Million over Six Years
July 14, 2023 -
NoozHawk: Sonoma Fit to Move In; Vacant Storefronts Still Plague Santa Barbara’s State Street
June 9, 2023 -
Costar: Curvature Deal Named Lease of the Year for Santa Barbara
March 31, 2023 -
Santa Barbara Talks: Francois DeJohn Says Remote Work Forcing Software Tech Companies to Sublease Space
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SF Business Times: New CA Bill to Ease Office-to-Housing Conversions
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Noozhawk: Five Points Shopping Center Getting Mattress Firm Takeover
February 24, 2023 -
PacBiz Times: Technology Forecast: Innovation will be the theme for 2023
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WSJ: U.S. Return-to-Office Rates Hit Pandemic High as More Employers Get Tougher
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PacBiz Times: As working from home becomes the new norm, big companies look to sublease surplus space
September 3, 2022
June 5, 2025
Voice Magazine: Music Academy of the West To Open Education Center in Downtown Santa Barbara
A high note for downtown, the Music Academy of the West has purchased one of the largest buildings on State Street and announced plans to develop a music education center…
April 22, 2025
Noozhawk: UCSB Purchases Vacant Lot From Friendship Manor to Build Housing
The university’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics will build housing for researchers and visiting graduate fellows [Note: Hayes Commercial Group represented both buyer and seller in the off-market transaction. Francois…
February 21, 2025
Noozhawk: Sephora Moving to New Space with State Street Storefront
Beauty store Sephora is bringing its popular, high-quality brand to a State Street storefront. The large, national retail store is moving soon from Santa Barbara’s Paseo Nuevo to 733 State…
December 16, 2024
PacBiz Times: Google’s breaththrough “Willow” quantum chip developed in Goleta
Quantum scientists at Google made quite a splash this week with reports that described how its new chip, Willow, made a breakthrough in problem-solving that sent parent Alphabet’s stock soaring….
September 5, 2024
Noozhawk: TechTopia Shows Off Innovation and Research of Industry, UCSB Labs
Walking through UC Santa Barbara’s campus, one wouldn’t realize that inside the very buildings they pass by, students and entrepreneurs are inside labs making diamonds and microchips and analyzing data…
August 29, 2024
The Current: UCSB to lead $22M NSF-funded “BioFoundry” on exceptional microbes
This week, the National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UC Santa Barbara under its biofoundries program for the establishment of the BioFoundry for Extreme…
June 24, 2024
PacBiz Times: Commercial real estate legend Steve Hayes retires
After graduating from the University of Southern California, Steve Hayes knew he wanted to be in some form of sales work. After all, it was something he had been doing…
February 13, 2024
Santa Barbara Talks: Business Leaders Say Downtown Assessment District Could Fix ‘Broken’ State Street
Three downtown business leaders talked about the benefits of the proposed Community Benefit Assessment District for State Street in the latest episode of Santa Barbara Talks with Josh Molina. Francois…
September 8, 2023
Noozhawk: Validation Ale to expand
Funk Zone business Validation Ale has signed a lease for a second location at 2840 De la Vina St. in Santa Barbara. Validation Annex will move into a building that…
September 8, 2023
Noozhawk: New Tenant Replaces Zoom in downtown Santa Barbara
Caitlin Hensel has been busy sealing deals. In addition to the Validation Ale lease, Hensel represented the incoming tenant to 420 E. Carrillo St. The building was previously occupied by…
September 1, 2023
Noozhawk: Inogen, Umbra Space On the Move in Commercial Real Estate Shakeup
A commercial real estate shakeup is underway. Goleta-based Inogen, which makes oxygen therapy products, has leased 17,900 square feet at 859 Ward Drive, near Highway 217. Inogen is right-sizing its…
July 28, 2023
Noozhawk: Santa Barbara Public Market Booming with New Restaurants, Art Exhibits
It’s Wednesday night at the Santa Barbara Public Market, and there’s not a seat easily to be found. About 100 people are packed into the common dining area toward the…
July 14, 2023
Independent: UC Santa Barbara’s Materials Research Laboratory Awarded $18 Million over Six Years
UC Santa Barbara’s Material Research Laboratory has been chosen as one of the nine universities awarded an $18 million grant from the National Science Institute, to be distributed over a…
June 9, 2023
NoozHawk: Sonoma Fit to Move In; Vacant Storefronts Still Plague Santa Barbara’s State Street
Santa Barbara’s State Street continues its struggles. Between the 400 and 1300 blocks, the rate of vacant storefronts inched up to 14.1% from the prior year, according to Hayes Commercial…
March 31, 2023
Costar: Curvature Deal Named Lease of the Year for Santa Barbara
Tech Firm Plugging Into Building Marks Positive Sign for This Southern California Market One of the largest leases signed in California’s coastal Santa Barbara County was a nod to the…
March 7, 2023
Santa Barbara Talks: Francois DeJohn Says Remote Work Forcing Software Tech Companies to Sublease Space
Software technology companies on the South Coast are looking to sublease significant portions of the properties because of the rise in remote work that began even before the start of…
March 1, 2023
SF Business Times: New CA Bill to Ease Office-to-Housing Conversions
Many California downtowns have yet to see empty office buildings converted into homes, at least at any large scale. Assemblymember Matt Haney has introduced a new proposal to change that….
February 24, 2023
Noozhawk: Five Points Shopping Center Getting Mattress Firm Takeover
Mattress Firm is coming to the Five Points Shopping Center in Santa Barbara. The Houston-based company has leased the spaces formerly occupied by Saigon Restaurant and La Salsa, according to…
January 6, 2023
PacBiz Times: Technology Forecast: Innovation will be the theme for 2023
The Central Coast might never be Silicon Valley, but the technology scene that exists in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties is strong and consistent. That isn’t going…
September 20, 2022
WSJ: U.S. Return-to-Office Rates Hit Pandemic High as More Employers Get Tougher
Workers are returning to U.S. offices at the highest rate since the pandemic forced most workplaces to temporarily close in 2020, as infection rates continue to fall and more companies intensify efforts to bring…
September 3, 2022
PacBiz Times: As working from home becomes the new norm, big companies look to sublease surplus space
The COVID-19 pandemic brought home the fact that for many companies, it’s viable to have a workforce that works almost entirely from home, and that’s prompted some tough decisions about…