College of the Desert has revealed more detailed plans for its West Valley campus and business center to be built on Indian Canyon Drive, about a block from Palermo Palm Springs. "The first phase of construction, to be completed by fall of 2014, will include classrooms for culinary arts and green technology programs, as well as a small library, fitness center and bookstore. Later phases will add more classrooms expanding hospitality and green tech programs and adding health sciences and media and arts programs, student housing and even, in the fourth phase, a boutique hotel,"says a report. We will post a longer story later this weekend. Here are the basics of the build-out plan.
Phase 1: 50,000 square feet, 159 parking spaces by 2014
Phase 2: 100,000 square feet, 557 parking spaces
Phase 3: 110,000 square feet, 680 parking spaces
Phase 4: 120,000 square feet, 1,029 parking spaces
Phase 5: 70,000 square feet, 1,059 parking spaces
Additional construction, including housing: 200,000 square feet, 531 parking spaces
Full build-out: 650,000 square feet, 2,619 parking spaces.
Miss Penny Lane says: She's making an educated guess that Palermo will be the most desirable community in Palm Springs once the redevelopment boom takes off.
5 comments:
Really exciting. Palermo will be the perfect place for professors, administrators and students to live.
I am hopeful for more positive outcomes than negative, but growth of this type (even controlled growth), will have some negative consequences for Palermo and other residential areas as well. Does Palermo really want students living here? The owners bitch and moan now about renters, can you imagine the melee that will ensue when students move-in, move-out, play loud music, party into the night by the pools, etc., etc.....Be careful what you wish for. Moreover, the Association should start considering even now what some of the negative impacts of this growth WILL mean. For one, traffic on Indian Canyon, particularly for those with homes on that side, will not be pretty--rendering their outdoor space practically unusable. Are there mitigation strategies (landscaping), that could help reduce the noise? I'm sure there are other negative impacts as well. It will not all be positive by any means.
To 11:18, seriously? Across the street is/was Julian's and junk car shop, a beat up industrial zone, a recycling trash drop off and a house for sale for $17,000! It's an eyesore, blighted and an attraction to crime. Now, we have a beautiful state-of-the-art multi-million dollar forward-thinking investment coming across the street in these economic times and we are going to become NIMBYs - not in my back yard? Anyone who bought on that side of Palermo already has traffic noise as Indian is one of the major arteries in and out of town. They own their backyards so they would be able to plant to decrease the noise themselves. The market will determine who lives at Palermo in the future be they renters, renting students, DINKs, owning professors, first-time buyers or the elderly. Wait until you see the grocery store and Target combo they are planning across the street too! I like the fact that we will have such neighbors and I believe the majority of my neighbors will as well. Nothing like being surrounded by people who are intellectually stimulating.
To 12:11pm, no one is saying growth in the area isn't positive, but every up side, has a down side--that is reality. The pollyanna notion that all this growth will somehow be all sunshine and happiness, isn't reality. Let us know how you feel after student renters move-in and out and in and out and in and out...next door to you.
Ah Palermo. First they discriminate openly against renters in general on this site. Now, upon the notion students might live there in 2014 or 2015, 6:57 has a specific class of renters to discriminate against -- students. So short sighted. What other class of people do you not want living here? Bikers who rent? Black people who rent? Single mothers who rent? Gays who rent? I thought diversity was what was so appealing to the Palermo community. Now, I just want to move.
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