Beer Run Santa Cruz, a new beer garden and sausage house from the owners of Beer Thirty Bottle Shop & Pourhouse in Soquel and Beer Mule Bottle Shop & Pourhouse in Watsonville, has been in the works at the former Wienerschnitzel lot on Soquel Avenue in Santa Cruz for almost a decade. Co-owner Kym DeWitt reveals why the progress has been so slow. And, with no hurdles currently standing in their way, the opening could be soon.
Ask Lookout
Posted inLatest News
Ask Lookout: Is the old (but new) shopping center on Mission Street close to reopening?
A little over a year on, the previously scorched Mission Street shopping center is moving toward the completion of its remodel. While a return to full operations is still a ways off, some familiar faces will be coming back to the Westside Santa Cruz complex as other tenants remain to be determined.
Posted inBusiness & Technology
Ask Lookout: What’s in the works for charred Mission Street shopping center?
A run-of-the-mill shopping center is one of the latest parcels in Santa Cruz to be turned into a construction site as it undergoes a facelift and prepares to bring in new tenants. It’s a welcome update for a structure that has seen a fair amount of trouble in recent years.
Posted inHousing & Development
Ask Lookout: What was that construction near the trestle bridge, and is it done?
The mouth of the San Lorenzo River was packed with heavy machinery during the late summer and fall, but that construction has since halted. What was the project, and has it wrapped up?
Posted inEnvironment
Ask Lookout: When I scrape my plate into my new food scraps bin, where does it go?
Follow the pathway of 40 tons of meat and vegetable pieces, pits, bones and coffee grounds per week — and learn the anti-warming science behind the City of Santa Cruz’s new food scraps collection program.
Posted inLatest News
Ask Lookout: What was that big helicopter going back and forth to the DeLaveaga fire recently?
Folks around downtown might have seen a new addition to Cal Fire’s air attack dipping into the San Lorenzo River near the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk to help fight a recent blaze. Here’s a closer look.
Posted inHousing & Development
Ask Lookout: Are there any big plans for that empty lot at 41st and Soquel?
A barren lot at 41st Avenue and Soquel Drive has been in limbo for the past few years, after a car dealership project approved by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors didn’t go as planned. Given its location at one of the highest-traffic intersections in the county, what can become of the parcel? Could we see more housing?
Posted inCity Life
Ask Lookout: It seems like everyone is already composting kitchen waste, but I still don’t have my bin. Where is it?
The state of California mandated home composting on Jan. 1, but some Santa Cruz County residents have been scratching their heads about what’s up. Lookout found that your ability to follow the law varies with where you live in the county — but that the impact of the new law will be massive, 50 to 60 tons of food waste weekly just from Santa Cruz city residents. What’s your question? Ask Lookout at news@lookoutlocal.com, and put “Ask LO” in the subject line.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Ask Lookout: The West Cliff path near Natural Bridges remains a mess, for years it seems. What’s the holdup?
Who hasn’t seen the ongoing work/workaround on one of Santa Cruz’s most popular walkways? Good news on this one — and we’ve put together a reader’s guide/map to the public works projects coming soon to neighborhoods in Santa Cruz. What’s your question? Ask Lookout at news@lookoutlocal.com, and put Ask LO in the subject line.
Posted inCoast Life
Ask Lookout: Did the Virgin Mary actually once visit a lake in Watsonville?
Thirty years ago Friday, an apparition of La Virgen de Guadalupe visited Anita Mendoza Contreras at Pinto Lake, turning a sleepy county park into a pilgrimage site. The timing was impeccable, Wallace Baine writes.