Organic, textural, effortless California style with a strong sense of place.
A New Hub Situated in the heart of town, LINDEN SQUARE has quickly become Carpinteria’s newest dining and shopping hub. Formerly a retail shop, a metal farm building, and Hickey’s General Store—owned by the Hickey family for nearly 130 years—the site has been reimagined as a sleek open-air destination for eating, drinking, working, shopping, and gathering. “We took an adaptive reuse approach to the design, peeling back tired facades to expose each building’s original bones, celebrating what they were, then carefully and creatively breathing new life into each,” says Matt LaBrie, the cofounder and developer of the property. With exposed steel, clean lines, and open walls surrounding a sunny courtyard, the complex seamlessly weaves a modern aesthetic into its
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EXTERIORS: RILEY YAHR; MURAL: CHAD JONES PHOTO; TINA’S: KATIE KATZ PHOTOGRAPHY
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