Crossing Laurel Street, Pacific Avenue gets into the downtown planning area long labeled "south of Laurel".
The most significant recent change in the 700 block, the closure of Saturn Cafe, has already been noted in "Changes" #10. But the round Saturn Cafe room was just the showroom end of building constructed in 1947 for a car dealership.
Local boom-and-bust company Kinko's occupied the larger part of the building from 1985 to 1999. More recently, Walgreen's drug store gave that space a try, but closed last year. Now an Ace Hardware franchise has taken over the entire building in 2021 - including the round corner showroom. It's a rare business opening since 2019, so good luck to them.
The streetscape past Ace Hardware is best described as "eclectic". No recent major changes, although a building is under construction on what has long been a vacant lot at the northwest corner of Pacific and Sycamore - don't know yet what it will be.
Across Sycamore is the big residential development at 555 Pacific, the subject of the very first Santa Cruz Changes post back in March. News since then is that Current eBikes has moved into one of the retail spaces.
Santa Cruz Changes locations can be found on this Google Map.