••• There’s a new pop-up at The Post: Bucatini, an L.A.–based company selling Mediterranean housewares and, according to its Instagram post, food products, although I didn’t see any when I stopped by. Then again, I was mesmerized by a Bordallo Pinheiro ceramic banana bowl…. Bucatini is at the northern entrance to the complex, across from the Spilled Milk kids’ clothing shop.
••• Santa Barbara Rock Gym (State and Gutierrez) will close on November 15.
••• The redevelopment of the Sears lot at La Cumbre Plaza into a 443-unit apartment complex is on today’s Architectural Board of Review agenda, which means you have until this afternoon to look at the plans—which you absolutely should do. (State law prohibits me from running any of the renderings on pages 8-16 without the architect’s consent; I emailed the firm, AO, along with applicant Kennedy Wilson late Friday, and I hope to hear back.) The design is institutional, with chunky buildings done in a streamlined Spanish Colonial Revival style that I wish was more distinctive. To be fair, however, one could argue it’s contextual for upper State Street.
••• The University of California has added to its local real estate holdings by picking up 530 Chapala Street (at Cota) for $11.571 million. Any plans for it are unknown. Same goes for the former QAD campus between Montecito and Summerland. If anyone out there has intel, we’d love to know…. Anonymity guaranteed…