6-Year Anniversary of Santa Barbara’s Granada Garage

By on June 13, 2012 in News

granada On June 13, 2006, the Granada Garage was officially dedicated. The $30 million, mismeasured parking garage was dedicated on behalf of the City Council and Santa Barbara’s now defunct Redevelopment Agency.

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5 Responses to 6-Year Anniversary of Santa Barbara’s Granada Garage

  1. Anonymous June 13, 2012 at 2:31 pm #

    How has it been six years. Another grant house legacy

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  2. Anonymous June 13, 2012 at 3:54 pm #

    Those RDA funds really did a number on SB.

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  3. RDA funds created blight June 13, 2012 at 4:12 pm #

    RDA funds came with strings attached.

    Their use required the city build a certain number “affordable housing” units every time they to this money. Past city councils got drunk on this not-so-free money and undermined the entire structure, demographics and housing market of this city, just so those former city council members could dispense re-election favors to their friends.

    RDA “blight” eradication money just about killed our town. Best thing that happened to our city was to eliminate this program.

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    • C'Mon Man June 13, 2012 at 6:25 pm #

      Does building a parking garage really fight blight? Imagine the waste all across CA. Politicos have no one to blame but themselves!

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  4. Duh June 19, 2012 at 6:37 pm #

    Any project has “strings attached” for a “special interest” if you do not like the particular project by or for the particular people.

    The best of Santa Barbara showed through shortly after the Granada Garage opened up, when the Downtown Business Organization pleaded with the city that the bike lane on Anapamu Street should stay closed even after the garage opened up. For the duration of the garage construction, the city temporarily closed those blocks of bike lane to provide a few more car parking spaces that were unavailable when Lot 6 was converted into the large garage. When the garage was finished and opened up, the business organization reneged on their promise to support the bike lanes getting restored on the street. A fine moment in Santa Barbara civic history.

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