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Long rumored as the future location of Napa's first downtown Starbucks, the former home of The Eye Works is vacant and waiting for its next tenant.  The light-filled corner shop at 1...

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Planning Commission Hearing on Downtown Specific Plan

Credit Napa Local design by Ken Prosser

The public comment period at tonight's Napa City Council meeting could take a little longer than usual: A determined group of local activists has enlisted a number of downtown merchants i...

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I went to college in a notoriously liberal beach town, with a notoriously liberal downtown street called Pacific Avenue. Full of indie music shops, smoke shops, bars, and trinket houses, ...