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Samy’s Camera focuses In on Downtown State Street space
May 19, 2014 -
2013 Year-End Santa Barbara Retail Perspective
January 23, 2014 -
Sonos snags 100K square feet in Santa Barbara’s downtown
January 3, 2014 -
Indoor trampoline park will open in Turnpike Shopping Center
August 3, 2013 -
High-end retailing is coming back
July 27, 2013 -
Midyear update from Hayes Commercial
July 26, 2013 -
Workzones opens downtown
April 5, 2013 -
Lobero Theatre board welcomes Steve Hayes
March 27, 2013 -
Real estate investor buys $16.5M Venoco HQ in Carpinteria
March 18, 2013 -
South Coast Update
January 25, 2013 -
New interior decor store brings in unique offerings
December 13, 2012 -
Santa Barbara residents sell eclectic products at Super Chic
December 13, 2012 -
Steve Hayes celebrates 30 years of CRE dealmaking
December 7, 2012 -
Commercial real estate market posts mixed third quarter
November 15, 2012 -
State Street shopping scene heats up with boom in leases
July 13, 2012 -
City putting parking lot up for auction
July 6, 2012 -
Owner of midnight eatery Blue Owl opening new daytime deli
May 22, 2012 -
Bed supplier comes to rest on Chapala
May 15, 2012 -
No time to rest for adjustable-bed supplier Ergomotion
May 14, 2012 -
Ergomotion pens year’s largest lease in Santa Barbara
May 14, 2012 -
Scottsdale jeweler to open store on State Street
April 6, 2012
May 19, 2014
Samy’s Camera focuses In on Downtown State Street space
Samy’s Camera plans to lease a smaller downtown Santa Barbara location at 530 State St., where the retail shop would relocate in July, according to company management. The new space…
January 23, 2014
2013 Year-End Santa Barbara Retail Perspective
In my last retail report I commented on the rise in the “wealth effect,” in which the recent rise in home values and substantial gains in the stock market have…
January 3, 2014
Sonos snags 100K square feet in Santa Barbara’s downtown
Sonos is now the only company in downtown Santa Barbara that occupies more than 100,000 square feet of space. The company signed leases collectively valued at more than $21 million…
August 3, 2013
Indoor trampoline park will open in Turnpike Shopping Center
Suzanne Wolfe Jewell and Wayne Jewell have spent five years helping other clients build custom trampoline parks around the U.S., an increasingly popular form of entertainment and exercise. Now, the…
July 27, 2013
High-end retailing is coming back
In his mid-year retail outlook, Michael Martz of Hayes Commercial Group asserts that upmarket retailers are becoming active again in Santa Barbara’s central business district, hoping to capitalize on the…
July 26, 2013
Midyear update from Hayes Commercial
The commercial real estate recovery along the South Coast remained bumpy in the first half of the year, according to the latest report from Hayes Commercial Group. “The first half…
April 5, 2013
Workzones opens downtown
Part social club, part coffee-shop hangout and part technology incubator, Workzones is a new “co-working” space in downtown Santa Barbara. The member-based club has taken over 4,927 square feet of…
March 27, 2013
Lobero Theatre board welcomes Steve Hayes
Steve Hayes, a prominent figure in commercial real estate in the Santa Barbara area, has joined the Lobero Theatre board. As managing partner with Hayes Commercial Group, Steve Hayes brings…
March 18, 2013
Real estate investor buys $16.5M Venoco HQ in Carpinteria
A South Coast investor has purchased Venoco’s 50,955-square-foot headquarters building in Carpinteria. The property at 6267 Carpinteria Ave. was purchased by real estate investor Victor Schaff for an undisclosed amount….
January 25, 2013
South Coast Update
The South Coast commercial real estate market broke sales records last year, with the total deal value topping $365 million. The news came from Hayes Commercial Group, which jokingly noted…
December 13, 2012
New interior decor store brings in unique offerings
Two San Francisco based entrepreneurs have taken a creative approach to home decor, saying their store is unlike anything in downtown with hand picked items brought in from around the…
December 13, 2012
Santa Barbara residents sell eclectic products at Super Chic
Two Santa Barbara newcomers have opened shop this month at Super Chic by combining their love of design and of the eclectic. Located at 1A W. Canon Perdido, the shop…
December 7, 2012
Steve Hayes celebrates 30 years of CRE dealmaking
Steve Hayes remembers meeting his clients at places around town, rushing back to his office, checking voicemail and then heading back out. It was commercial real estate, in the low-tech…
November 15, 2012
Commercial real estate market posts mixed third quarter
Sales in commercial real estate posted increases in Santa Barbara County during the third quarter, while commercial leasing experienced a decline. Commercial Realtors who released their third-quarter summaries from the…
July 13, 2012
State Street shopping scene heats up with boom in leases
There’s a summer retail shuffle happening on Santa Barbara’s State Street. The region’s versions of Rodeo Drive has seen a number of new leases, expansions, and moves this summer, including…
July 6, 2012
City putting parking lot up for auction
The City of Santa Barbara is putting the parking lot of the former Milpas Street post office up for sale in a sealed-bid auction to be held on July 19….
May 22, 2012
Owner of midnight eatery Blue Owl opening new daytime deli
ormer pastry chef Cindy Black decided to open her Asian-fusion Blue Owl midnight eatery a year and a half ago when she noticed there weren’t many late-night dining options. But…
May 15, 2012
Bed supplier comes to rest on Chapala
Santa Barbara-based Ergomotion, a fast-growing supplier in the adjustable bed industry, will move the lion’s share of its operations from existing spaces in what brokers are calling the largest commercial…
May 14, 2012
No time to rest for adjustable-bed supplier Ergomotion
While adjustable beds are most often found in hospitals and retirement homes, one Santa Barbara company is trying to demonstrate that the beds aren’t just for the sick and elderly….
May 14, 2012
Ergomotion pens year’s largest lease in Santa Barbara
Ergomotion, a company that makes adjustable bed bases, has signed the largest commercial lease in Santa Barbara so far this year. Year-to-date, the 9,656-square-foot lease at 203 Chapala St. is…
April 6, 2012
Scottsdale jeweler to open store on State Street
Scottsdale-based high-end jeweler Scott Gauthier has selected State Street as the site for his third bricks-and-mortar store, according to the Santa Barbara-based real estate commercial broker who arranged the deal….