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On hospitality, technology, and the places we operate — our own thinking, and where ZenStay is in the news.

PerspectiveJuly 2026 · 4 min read

Technology should disappear, not take over.

The best hospitality tech is the kind you never notice — it clears the friction so people can do the part that matters.

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The art of adaptive reuse begins before the acquisition.

PerspectiveJuly 2026

GTB Group

The art of adaptive reuse begins before the acquisition.

Why the most valuable thing an old building offers is the one thing a new build can't buy.

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PressJul 2, 2026

The Santa Barbara Independent

The Art of Adaptive Reuse.

The Independent visits Casa Iglesia — the 1924 First Christian Church reborn as a 37-room hotel — on the discipline of preserving what makes a building worth keeping.

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Santa Barbara church gets a second life as a hotel.

PressJun 8, 2026

Noozhawk

Santa Barbara church gets a second life as a hotel.

Noozhawk tours Casa Iglesia — a 1925 church reborn as a 37-unit hotel with its sanctuary preserved and a new open-air atrium at its center.

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Historic Chapala Street church transformed into a boutique hotel.

PressJun 8, 2026

KEYT · News Channel 3-12

Historic Chapala Street church transformed into a boutique hotel.

KEYT reports on the two-year conversion of the 1924 landmark into a 37-unit hotel — its Spanish and Moorish detail preserved around a new open-air atrium.

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Historic church under construction to become a hotel.

PressMar 29, 2024

KSBY News

Historic church under construction to become a hotel.

An early look — mid-construction — at the plan to renovate the Chapala Street church into a 37-unit hotel while keeping its historic exterior intact.

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Planning Commission backs a first-of-its-kind hotel-condo project.

PressMar 18, 2023

Noozhawk

Planning Commission backs a first-of-its-kind hotel-condo project.

Noozhawk covers the city's unanimous approval of our 1018 Garden Street project — now Casa Jardín — a first-of-its-kind, 13-unit hotel whose rooms can be individually owned and operated as hospitality.