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VOL. 38, N0. 32
Village bookstore shutters
Aug. 9, 2024
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Farenheit 451 forced to vacate after rent triples
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By Fiona Bork
CARLSBAD — A local bookstore closed its doors in early June when rent prices tripled after the expiration of a longtime property manager’s 52-year ground lease. Farenheit 451 Books, sporting the motto “a candy store for the mind,” had served the community for 17 years in the Carlsbad Village Professional building. P.J. Phillips, the store’s owner, said the new building manager and the property’s landowner, Pacific FARENHEIT 451 Coast Investments, did not offer to renew his lease after it expired in mid-July. Phillips said his rent under Marty Rombotis, who was managing the building under a 52-year lease, was $2.12 per square foot, but Pacific Coast Investments planned to charge up to four times that amount. “Just another landowner that exterminates bookstores,” Phillips said. “It’s an old, old story. I’ve watched a few thousand go down during the 33 years I’ve been a TURN TO FARENHEIT ON 16
Encinitas opens new arts center at Pacific View After 20 years, local officials, artists and others celebrated the grand opening of the Pacific View Arts Center on Tuesday. 7
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SCHAAR SHREDS
Encinitas skater wins silver in Olympic men’s park By Laura Place
PARIS — San Dieguito Academy graduate Tom Schaar earned the silver medal in the men’s park skateboarding final at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday, making this the second skate medal for Team USA secured by an Encinitas athlete. Schaar, 24, took the silver with a best-of-three-rounds score of 92.23, coming in behind Australia’s Keegan Palmer with 93.11 — he also won gold in Tokyo — and ahead of Brazil’s Augusto Akio with 91.85 for the bronze. This is Schaar’s Olympic debut. He just missed out on a spot on the Tokyo team in 2020 with a fourth-place finish. Now, he is one of two skateboarding medalists for the United States in 2024, with fellow Encinitas skater Jagger Eaton also winning a silver medal in the men’s street skating final last month. Park skaters are given three 45-second runs to impress the judges, with only their highest-scoring run counted. Schaar secured his 92.23 score in the second round and was looking to best Palmer’s 93.11
SDA GRADUATE Tom Schaar, 24, holds the American flag on the podium Wednesday after winning silver in the Olympic men’s park skate final in Paris. Courtesy photo/Team USA/Getty
in the third round for a shot at gold before becoming unglued from his board while attempting a 720 with less than 10 seconds remaining. However, his strong showing in the second round kept him on the podium. Schaar, who was born and raised in Malibu before moving to Encinitas, was one of two
Americans competing in the park finals. The other was Tate Carew, 19, of San Diego, who came in fifth. Schaar exploded onto the national skateboarding stage at age 12, when he landed the first-ever 1080 in competition and became the youngest X Games gold medalist. In the women’s park skate final the day prior, fellow En-
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cinitas skater Bryce Wettstein entered as the sole competitor for Team USA coming off a strong second-place finish in the preliminary. She came in sixth place, the same place as her finish in Tokyo in 2021. Arisa Trew, 14, of Australia, took the gold, giving the Aussies a sweep in both men’s and women’s park skating in Paris. Japan’s Kokona Hiraki took silver, and Great Britain’s Sky Brown took bronze. Other North County athletes competing for the U.S. skateboarding team included Oceanside’s Gavin Bottger, 17, who just missed a spot in the men’s park final. Ruby Lilley, 17, also of Oceanside, finished 13th in the women’s park prelim. This is the second Olympics to feature skateboarding. Several North County athletes paved the way as part of the inaugural team in 2021, including Wettstein, Eaton, Jordyn Barret, and Brighton Zeuner. INSIDE: Rancho Santa Fe’s Karl Cook, an Olympic alternate, rode a perfect course earlier this week to help the U.S. equestrian jumping team win silver. Story on 14.
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