City of Santa Monica
Montana Avenue
Montana Ave, 700–1799 blocks (≈7th St to 17th St), Santa Monica.
Openings vs closings · Oct 22, 2025 – Oct 22, 2026
- Opening = New Santa Monica business licenses appearing in our nightly snapshot of the city's Active Business Licenses dataset
- Closing = Licenses disappearing from that snapshot
- Santa Monica's dataset has no start/end dates, so changes can only be detected by snapshot diff. Tracking began 2026-10-21; there is not yet a 12-month history.
- CA ABC liquor licenses are not used for the score: surrenders carry no date in ABC's export, so issued-vs-surrendered cannot be compared over a period.
Color rule: green if openings ≥55% of openings+closings, red if ≤45%, amber in between; needs ≥10 dated records, otherwise “insufficient data”.
Hand-curated · every item sourced
Notable openings, closings & pop-ups
Curated from named public sources and verified broker tips. Pop-up / temporary items are shown for context only and are never counted in the openings-vs-closings trend above; curated items are not part of the trend calculation at all.
No curated items yet for this corridor.
Active business licenses (snapshot)
181
Active licenses with a Montana Ave 700–1799 address in Santa Monica Open Data. The dataset carries no start/end dates, so openings/closings are detected by nightly snapshot diff — see feed. Includes non-storefront licenses (e.g. rentals, offices).
- Rental of Commercial Property 54
- Clothing / Accessories 12
- Restaurant 11
- Hair Stylist 6
- Beauty Salon 5
- Real Estate Broker 5
- Rental Of Residential Units 4
- Ice Cream / Yogurt Store 4
- Corporate or Administrative Headquarters 3
- Jewelry 3
- Cleaners / Clothes 3
- Apparel 3
Submarket rent & vacancy — data source pending
Published brokerage reports we reviewed either do not break out this corridor or derive figures from CoStar, which we do not republish. We'll quote figures only from a broker's own public research with a direct link. Reports to check:
Traffic counts — data source pending
No public segment counts found yet for this corridor in city open data. Caltrans AADT covers state highways only.
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Activity (last 12 months + open applications)
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