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Hayward's Design
updated: Sep 29, 2012, 12:24 PM

By Edhat Subscriber

I went over to Hayward's Design Center on Olive yesterday. It's being ripped apart. Did it close, or is this a remodel underway?

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COMMENT 325893	2012-09-29 12:39 PM
Moved/consolidated to their other location.
COMMENT 325901	2012-09-29 12:55 PM
Construction unemployment in our town is 45% - I am suprised that location lasted this long -Sign of the growing economy that we are watching and spoon fed on the main stream media outlets - PS - QAD just laid off a bunch of employee's - 4 more years of this and most of us will be on lower milpas bugging the gas stations .....Just say'n
COMMENT 325911P	2012-09-29 01:12 PM
And there are a lot of jobs here in town that cannot be filled. The skills needed are not the skills we have. Education people, education! Times have changed. We don't need buggy whip makers anymore. When the world changes the skills needed change. Why is this so hard to understand?
COMMENT 325918	2012-09-29 01:31 PM
Jobs have been hard to come by in SB FOREVER. It is nothing new.
COMMENT 325928	2012-09-29 02:09 PM
Part of a new court building going in there with holding cells etc....
COMMENT 325931	2012-09-29 02:10 PM
Many design and home improvement type stores grew disproportionately in square footage and staffing during real estate boom times (and of course sales), but never shrank with economic contraction. You could go in giant showrooms years after the peak of the speculation and remodeling craze, and they were empty. Times change. Stores need to keep up, or rather downsize accordingly.
COMMENT 325981	2012-09-29 03:47 PM
Ambrose Mill & Lumber, County Lumber, Channel City Lumber, Santa Barbara Mill & Lumber and Capitol Lumber were all downtown(only two left). There has been a steady decline of building/manufacturing infrastructure since the early eighties. These are the kind of establishments people do not like to see and do not know they need.
COMMENT 325985	2012-09-29 03:54 PM
Too bad -- it was a beautiful building and i always admired its design. If it's the one i'm thinking of, right up from Arnoldi's?
COMMENT 325995P	2012-09-29 04:24 PM
Funny, I was in Channel City just today. I frequently shop there. They have been on Aero Camino all the time that I have lived here. It is right off Hollister across from the airport tower. Don't ever remember it being downtown Santa Barbara.
BECKY	2012-09-29 04:43 PM
Channel City used to have both a Goleta and a SB store. They kept just the Goleta store. The SB one closed about 2 decades ago.
COMMENT 326025	2012-09-29 05:31 PM
Building was bought by OSI Hardware, 3 guys who left Network Hardware a few years ago to start their own company. Started out real small just the 3 of them, now they're in an 8,000 sf building.
COMMENT 326056	2012-09-29 06:43 PM
Why do people end their moronic comments with "just sayin'"?
COMMENT 326065P	2012-09-29 07:28 PM
325901 Check out this graph: Link
COMMENT 326137	2012-09-30 06:49 AM
For places like that to stay open, and for the related jobs to be maintained, building and economic progress need to happen (preferably in a reasonable manner). These are things the entrenched "I got mine you can't have yours" Santa Barbarans fight against every inch of the way.
COMMENT 326141P	2012-09-30 07:01 AM
056: You sort of have the answer within a keyword of your question. Technically, and more kindly to those who do this, it's psycho-linguistic thing that people who are unsure of themselves do in speech transferred to their writing. With the advent of the Internet, there are so many more people "writing" and many can only do so as they speak rather than being able to differentiate between the two. Not trying to be overly pedantic here. Just s...opps!
COMMENT 326165	2012-09-30 08:07 AM
Hayward's Design Center moved back to their lumber yard on Laguna Street. While their showroom was beautiful, their customer service was terrible. After several incidents, I have taken my business to Stock on Santa Barbara Street, a small showroom but outstanding service.
COMMENT 326221	2012-09-30 09:56 AM
The link takess one to some posts by Pelosi. Can't be taken seriously. Huffington Post (left bias at best) said there have been a net of 125,000 new jobs in Obama's term. Data from Labor Department. Remember, we have been in a recovery since June 2009, officially. So, one can conclude that there is "tilting" going on by Pelosi. BTW, many have been taken out of counting by how the labor pool has been defined. Kind of like Bush trying to redefine what a wetland is.
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COMMENT 326453	2012-10-01 06:52 AM
Hayward downsizing, Maverick leaving, sign of the times. Is Maverick moving? Or just closing?
COMMENT 326597	2012-10-01 01:01 PM
reality Bites
COMMENT 326647	2012-10-01 03:26 PM
I'm sorry to see the local businesses contract but I have to say that instead of patronizing San Andres Hardware in my neighborhood I'm more likely to go to Ace or HD because I know I can get everything I need there.

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