Edhat Staff
(Photo by an edhat reader)
By edhat staff
An edhat reader shares a sign of proposed hotel development for the “Calle Real Hotel” in the former home of Santa Barbara Motorsports.
The Notice of Proposed Development reads the new hotel will be located at 5955 Calle Real, next door to Zodo’s Bowling and Beyond.
The development plans to build a three-story 134 room hotel. The building itself will be 18,172 square feet while the total project would reach 54,910 square feet. Included is 142 parking spaces, 8 bicycle spaces, assorted landscaping, and an outdoor pool.
Below is a rendering that was proposed in 2016. The entire proposal can be viewed here.
I miss Skandis…
Good. The business community here needs more hotel space. I know a lot of people will complain but this is necessary. Thousands of people (like myself) and their families depend on the growing High Tech business community in Goleta.
Once again Goleta shows the “can do” spirit….in the behind-the-times City of SB we have the Miramar disaster and that “thing” on the 1800 block of State. Maybe the sb city council should encourage entrepenuers to open up shop downtown. Goleta is doing. SB is doo-doo-ing….literally.
Gee, the architecture looks just like new out of the same box Santa Barbara. The new seminal style to replace what used to make Santa Barbara notable – timeless and gracefully detailed 1920’s Spanish.
The pressure is not off Santa Barbara to provide “affordable housing” for the 20,000 commuting workers. This is now Goleta’s full responsibility. Between UCSB and HighTech Goleta, providing “affordable housing” is no longer Santa Barbara’s sole burden. It is about time.
Why do all these huge tech businesses want to plant themselves in tiny cities. Go to a bigger city that already has accommodations for you.
UCSB research- spinning profits off taxpayer funded public education.
Let’s hope that you’re right. Sadly, Paula (and a couple of others) are tied to the city unions. If they want this will Paula (and others) have the guts to say no? Didn’t happen in SB. We’ll be watching…
The last thing that Goleta needs is another hotel. Who ARE these people?
I say we turn back the clock … everyone who wasn’t here before, say, 1980, has to leave town. If you came after that, you’re part of the problem. All buildings built after that has to be turned into open space. Wait, Delco Electronics moved a ton of people out from Wisconsin before that who built a lot of homes and crowded our schools. They had 2,000 water sucking employees. So let’s change the threshold to 1965 and keep our economy based on low wage earners waiting tables, running cash registers, changing seniors’ diapers, and tending our gardens. At least Lincoln School would till be around and not a commuter parking lot …. {all said in jest to make fun of the holier than thou}
Large estates had maids and gardeners quarters. For the workers they needed, they housed them too. Let’s do turn back to those days.
Santa Barbara is becoming Goleta’s armpit. Many want to head over! A great evacuation experience this time last year. Loved 5-weeks in Goleta.
Fine but you give us back all the tax money we put into this place with interest…
Unions control SB’s Council. How we’re watching Goleta’s Council votes.
Desecration (architecture, glass boxes) that destroyed the beauty of parts of San Francisco. Now here. As FACTOTUM said, and I agree.
I live in a senior complex about 2 blocks from the proposed development and am already concerned about air quality. I avoid the intersection due to long waits at the stop light and heavy traffic.
Is this what the quiet, stable, residential Goleta wants for its future? Once that oversized building is completed it won’t go away in my lifetime.
There are plans in the works to reconfigure that intersection, but if this building was completed, that would probably limit these plans.
Has an EIR been completed for this project?
Calle Real shopping strip is already overcrowded. We don’t need hundreds of visitors joining us at Trader Joe’s. Please don’t build this project.
It’s always about the money. The council approves union-only labor (or some other union scheme) and gets re-election money from the union. That’s how incumbents can stay in office for so long.
Actually with term limits the politicians do not stay in office that long; but their union handlers are forever, no matter who replaces them. As long as the unions get to sit on both sides of the bargaining table – via their elected hand maidens and the union bosses negotiating for every possible benefit, perk and compensation package we will continue this downward spiral. Voters alone can change this. They had choices in 2017, but they kept voting union. What does that tell you? That they like taking money out of their own pockets and handing it over to the city employees for their ever-increasing perks and pensions while voters get get potholes and broken sidewalks in return. Unless of course (gasp) there are now more city employees and their families and friends voting than anyone else. Has this critical voter demographic tipping point been passed? City has over 2000 employees – can they continue to outvote everyone else?
Why do the unions control so many elected officials?