Mayor Pougnet has announced that Port Lawrence, the big mixed use development at Palm Canyon/Indian Canyon @ Alejo, will not go forward due to financing issues. This is a huge disappointment for our downtown and Palm Springs as a whole. It's especially disturbing given that the Palm Springs City Council approved demolishing all the buildings that were there before. The buildings housed viable businesses that are no longer there. What a shame! We all know that the credit crisis has taken out a lot of big players, but the city should not have allowed demolishing of the existing buildings until the developer's credit was secure Pictures are here to remind you what we have lost. Now the mayor suggests that the developer put in a parking lot!! See the Desert Sun article (opinion) here
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