Bob Marra
A welcome dose of certainty for the desert For Greater Palm Springs, the PGA TOUR’s confirmation that The American Express will return Jan. 21-24, 2027, is more than a calendar item. It is a sigh of relief. At a moment when the tour is openly reconsidering how...
Just a little more than a year ago, Palm Springs International Airport’s Master Plan was described as a sweeping, long-range expansion that would add many gates, expand terminal capacity, reshape and greatly increase the scale of rental car operations, and position...
The latest round of claims about the economic power of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and the Stagecoach Music Festival has produced a familiar result in the desert this spring: very big numbers, very little methodological transparency, and just enough...
California’s official launch last week of the new Salton Sea Conservancy adds what some see as fresh momentum to mitigate one of the state’s most persistent environmental challenges. For communities in the Coachella Valley and Imperial Valley, that is...
On a stretch of desert land below Coral Mountain that has spent years at the center of one of La Quinta’s most heated land use fights, early site work is now underway. Meriwether Companies has formally launched Coral Mountain Desert Club, a private club and...