Bob Marra
This editon of What’s For Sale features a back-on-market Date Palm retail center, a restored Hugh Kaptur landmark, a Rancho Mirage infill portfolio and a Palm Desert industrial building show where investors are finding opportunity and risk in the Coachella Valley.
At first, it looked like a vote about banquet service. But by the time the Palm Springs City Council unanimously approved a new five-year food-and-beverage agreement for the Palm Springs Convention Center, the issue had grown into something larger: a debate...
Jeffrey Lunak did not set out to build a hot dog company. He had spent years in the kind of kitchens and hotel food operations where reputations are made slowly, and mistakes are expensive. He worked in high-end, high-volume restaurants and hotels. He helped...
The local housing market entered the summer season with a split personality in May: fewer closed sales, lower median prices and more days on the market, but also a sharp increase in single-family homes going under contract. It was not a market in retreat. It...
For Greater Palm Springs, the PGA Tour’s confirmation a couple of months ago that The American Express will return to La Quinta in January 2027 was the news many local golf fans, sponsors, charities and hospitality businesses were waiting to hear. The...