Downtown Business Spotlight is a virtual interview series, where we chat and get to know our Santa Barbara business owners. Join us for this interview series in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Independent, each Thursday at 3 PM.
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 3 PM
TOPIC: Taking a Bite Out of Burger Week
Join Matt Kettmann in conversation with Clay Adams (Natural Cafe), Bob Stout (Little Kitchen), and Jay Ferro (Kyle’s Kitchen) in this week’s Downtown Business Spotlight.
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Did you miss the last Downtown Business Spotlight?
Watch it below!
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Hear Matt Kettmann in conversation with Renaud Gonthier (Renaud’s Patisserie) and Richard Yates (Opal) in this week’s Downtown Business Spotlight.
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Santa Barbara: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
- A Virtual Dialogue Series
Join Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation this spring for a free, five-part virtual dialogue series hosted on Zoom Webinar featuring some leading minds in the history, methodology and practice of principled urban development.
The City of Santa Barbara is exploring ways to revitalize its downtown core and provide more housing to meet our workforce needs as well as statewide housing requirements while remaining committed to keeping Santa Barbara’s character. How should we respond to the interrelated and multifaceted challenges Santa Barbara currently faces?
Throughout this series participants will learn how other, similar urban and suburban communities reached and implemented successful pragmatic solutions, how Santa Barbara developed and maintained its unique character, and how a better understanding of the history of that character development, coupled with some important lessons learned elsewhere, can help inform us about how we should respond to Santa Barbara’s urban development demands of today as well as prepare for the challenges of tomorrow.
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Today, at a Crossroads
March 10, 2021 - 6:00PM PST
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The City of Santa Barbara faces many challenges, including the need to develop more housing and a plan to revitalize its downtown core. We have reached an important crossroads. Anthony Grumbine will introduce our Dialogue Series and will address the many questions and concerns that the City administration and our community stakeholders are grappling with as efforts to move forward with an actionable plan intensify.
The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion featuring prominent local voices and leading minds in the history, methodology and practice of principled urban development, as well as an opportunity for audience Q&A.
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Roar & Pour - Thursdays @6pm (Weekly)
Outside the Good Lion/Granada Theatre
Join The Granada, Opera Santa Barbara and The Good Lion on Thursday nights for live music, food and drink. Experience the festivities of live music on State Street while enjoying festive State while sipping on a Pisco Resistance cocktail or sampling items from the Current Hits menu. Limited seating available for dining.
3/11: Blues duo | Kenny Sultan & Tina Dabby
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Celebrate Pi Day with Special Edition MOXI at Home Party Kit
It may have started as a way for staff at a San Francisco museum to bond, but Pi Day has evolved and grown into a national holiday celebrated by math aficionados, educators, those with a sweet tooth and more all around the world. Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three digits of the mathematical constant, pi. MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation is marking the day this year with an exclusive at-home event kit now on sale in its online Museum Store. Kits are available for curbside pickup at the museum Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Pi Day at Home party in a box was created by MOXI staff to foster creativity and bring joy to the whole family. The kit includes everything needed to pay homage to pi, even an on-theme meal. Each kit includes: materials to make a spin art machine, a customizable Pi Day banner, rings to play ring toss, chalk for outdoor circle drawing, a laser cut spirograph plus materials to make one, and a gift certificate to Rusty’s Pizza Parlor redeemable for one large two-topping pizza pi(e) and salad. Just add enthusiasm and creativity for a well-rounded celebration.
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Plaza Granada
A Downtown Improvement Project to Provide Safety, Beauty, Access
The plan for PLAZA GRANADA is coming to reality. Over the past few years, business owners, city officials, patrons of the arts, and local residents have collaborated to create an attractive renovation. What is now a crowded, unattractive area where cars, buses, and trucks share space with a constant flow of pedestrians will be a landscaped, well-lit space providing safe access to patrons, a limited number of parking spaces, and improved parking and drop-off facility for the backstage of the theater. The plan will meet the need to improve the circulation, safety, parking and maintenance.
The project covers a physically small area, yet it is complex given the needs of business owners, property lines, and government requirements. The new PLAZA GRANADA will feature attractive landscaping, vastly improved lighting for nighttime passage, much improved surface treatments, enclosures for trash and recycling, and new architectural features which will include a stunning mural by local Santa Barbara muralists, Tracy Lee Stum and Sayak Mitra.
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From the Economic Development Collaborative
Yesterday the California's Office of the Small Business Advocate announced that new funding rounds for the California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program will be opening soon. The program will continue to be managed by Lendistry and all updated information can be reviewed at CaReliefGrant.com. Our call center and advisors are available to work with clients to answer general questions, help with document uploads, new applications and non-technical related questions. 805.409.9159 (ENGLISH) or 805.309.5874 (SPANISH).
Here is a quick overview of the next four rounds of funding:
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Round 3: For waitlisted applicants from Round 1 & 2 only. No new applications will be accepted.
- Selection notifications will be sent out from March 5 to March 11.
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Round 4: Only for non-profit cultural institutions with any revenue size that meet eligibility criteria found at CAReliefGrant.com.
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Eligible non-profit cultural institutions must complete a new application even if they already applied in Rounds 1 and 2. This application will be different from Round 1 & 2. More information on this application is coming soon.
- Grants will only be available to non-profits cultural institutions that did not receive funding in Rounds 1, 2 or 3.
- Application window: March 16 to March 23
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Round 5: Accepting new applications.
- Waitlisted applicants from Round 1, 2 and 3 will be automatically moved into Round 5.
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Please note that not selected applicants from Round 4 will need to reapply to Round 5.
- Application window: March 25 to March 31
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Round 6: Accepting new applications.
- Waitlisted applicants from Round 1, 2, 3 and 5 will be automatically moved into Round 5.
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Please note that not selected applicants from Round 4 will need to reapply if they did not apply again during Round 5.
- Application window: TBD
Our “COVID-19 Business Resources – EIDL, PPP, UI and Grants” Webinar will continue on certain Fridays throughout March and April. This is an excellent opportunity for businesses to learn about the currently available COVID-19 resources and ask questions.
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State Street Promenade Market
Thursday, March 11, 3 - 7:30 PM
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