Bye Bye Desert Fashion Plaza

What were they thinking when they built tie Desert Fashion Plaza?

The Desert Fashion Plaza, once home to glamorous department stores, restaurants (including Hamburger Hamlet) and an air-conditioned walkway, is no more. The wrecking ball came down on the now-eyesore last week. The Desert Fashion Plaza is now history.

Just a week ago I walked through the parking garage to find the South entrance of the oddly-planned edifice. The massive concrete blog, a faux Southwest design nightmare, has been an eyesore right at the heart of downtown Palm Springs for more than a decade.

The property , owned by John Wessman of Wessman Development, is to undergo a rebuilding project that costs close to $100 million dollars.  The new development is supposed to house a multi-screen cinema complex, condos and close to a dozen storefronts. The completion date is expected to be sometime in 2015.

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