Four Seasons Cleaners Opens First Santa Barbara Store at Shepard Place Shops in Carpinteria

Dec. 7, 2011 - PRLog -- SANTA BARBARA – Ventura-based Four Seasons Cleaners will open its first store in Santa Barbara County after signing a five-year lease for 1,152 square feet at Shepard Place Shops in Carpinteria, announced Traci Taitt of The Towbes Group, who represented the owner Shepard Place L.P. in the transaction.

Founded by brothers Scott and Sonny Shah in 2003, Four Seasons Cleaners operates two stores in Ventura and one in Oxnard.  The dry cleaning and laundry process is undertaken in a fully automated facility in Ventura, which employs a computerized automatic assembly system to manage garment-processing operations at its stores.   Four Seasons Cleaners offers full solutions of dry cleaning and laundry service for cloth goods ranging from garments to heavier household fabrics, such as drapery, comforters, and linens.

“We have been asked by so many clients to open up a store in the Santa Barbara area to serve their friends and family,” said Four Seasons President Sonny Shah.  “After conducting a market study, we found Shepard Place Shops was in the heart of Carpinteria, where there is a solid amount of traffic for a retail operation to succeed.”

Shepard Place Shops is a 27,000 square-foot community shopping center on Carpinteria’s main retail corridor at 1001-1049 Casitas Pass Road, adjacent to U.S. 101. Built in 1981, Shepard Place is currently 100 percent leased to a mix of restaurants and locally owned businesses including Subway, Taco Bell, Montecito Bank & Trust and Shepard Place Pharmacy.

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About the Towbes Group

The Towbes Group, Inc. www.towbes.com is a fully integrated real estate investment, development and property management company. Founded in 1960, the Santa Barbara, CA-based firm has developed more than two million square feet of commercial real estate and nearly 6,000 single family and multifamily units in the Tri-county area. With more than two million square feet under management, the commercial properties division of The Towbes Group provides asset and property management for its own portfolio and third party clients.