Destination PSP, a locally owned retailer in downtown Palm Springs known for its Palm Springs-inspired merchandise and midcentury design aesthetic, has earned Certified Autism Center status, a designation that expands Greater Palm Springs’ effort to make the...
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Bob Marra
Coachella Power Strategy Hinges on Data Centers and IID Financing
The city of Coachella’s emerging strategy for expanding power capacity is not a single plan. It is two. On one track, city leaders are moving ahead with a limited municipal electric utility in the city’s eastern areas, where development is sparse, and major...
Cathedral City Festival of the Arts Bolsters City’s Emphasis on the Creative Economy
Cathedral City’s first Festival of the Arts was not just a pleasant day of artist booths, music and family activity at the community amphitheater. It was also a test of whether the city can turn its long-running “where art lives” identity into something more...
Indian Wells Channel Lining Funding Facilitates Development Opportunities
The city of Indian Wells is treating a long-discussed flood-control project as a critical step in determining whether one of the city’s last major undeveloped corridors can finally move forward. At the center of that effort is the Whitewater Channel Lining...
Salton Sea Authority Adopts Strategic Plan, Then Votes to Reshuffle Leadership as IID Departure Looms
The Salton Sea Authority (SSA/Authority), at its March 19 board of directors meeting, adopted a new five-year strategic plan intended, among other important strategies, to reposition the agency as a stronger governing force in the increasingly complex effort to...




