After a year of building, the Coachella Valley finally has a dedicated, hyper-local market intelligence service. A note from the publisher on what it is, why it exists, and what it means for readers of GPS Business Insider. For three decades, my job in this...
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Bob Marra
Three Very Large Workplaces Will Soon Be Dark in Palm Springs
Two imminent closures and one long-vacant newspaper campus are creating a concentrated industrial reuse challenge near Palm Springs International Airport. The regional market remains stable, but the local stakes are real.
Palm Springs Puts Dream Hotel Developer in Default as Critical Deadlines Loom
A missed construction-pricing milestone has triggered a formal cure process for one of Palm Springs' longest-delayed developments, with financing due by the end of September and construction scheduled to start the next day. After years of extensions, redesigns,...
What’s For Sale: A Landmark School Campus, $79 Million Thermal Estate and Medical Use Deals Hit the Market
Sometimes a commercial real estate listing is simply a property looking for a new owner. Sometimes it tells a much larger story about where a local economy has been and where it may be going next. This edition of What’s For Sale includes one of the clearest...
ZOLL to Close Palm Springs Ventilator Plant, Ending a Medical Manufacturing Lineage That Began With Forrest Bird
The corporate names attached to 1100 Bird Center Drive have changed again and again. The street name has not. For decades, the industrial campus near Palm Springs International Airport has been tied to respiratory medicine and to Forrest Bird, the aviator,...




