The Palm Springs City Council at 6 p.m. Wednesday will hold an important meeting on the new College of Desert campus. The new campus will be just north of Palermo Palm Springs on the west side of Indian Canyon Drive. The city bought 119 acres from the federal government and gave it the college. Valley voters passed a bond to build the campus. The City Council on Wednesday will discuss the new campus but also will consider zoning and other changes in the surrounding area as part of a "master plan" that will transform the area and put Palermo in the midst of new development. The plan envisions additional commercial development, including "convenience and neighborhood-serving development along Indian Canyon Drive." In all, the campus and campus-related business incubator will have 650,000 square feet of building space. The business incubator will have 230,000 square feet of offices, shops, labs and exhibit space. The campus will have 420,000 square feet of building space for academic facilities such as classrooms and labs, administrative and support buildings, transit hub and renewable energy installations. Positively Palermo hopes to have more a detailed report, courtesy of a resident in the know, in the next days. Miss Penny Lane says: She's making an educated guess that Palermo is the place to be, now and when the neighborhood transformation begins.
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