New live-update television screens, drought-resistant landscaping and a new loading platform – the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transportation District (MTD) Transit Center will be getting a $4 million renovation and gutting, scheduled to begin late 2019.
The existing Transit Center, located at 1020 Chapala Street in downtown Santa Barbara, was built in 1974 and hasn’t had anything more than a “cosmetic facelift” since, according to MTD spokesperson Hillary Blackerby.
“We’re excited to be able to give people a more modern facility,” Blackerby said. “If we were designing [the current building] from scratch, we wouldn't design it [the way it was designed in 1974].”