Restaurants, sculpture, solar panels and more …
Lots coming up in our fair City …
Trilussa Restorante passed its final building inspection and can open;
Buddy Greco’s dinner club will open on March 23.
Here’s the rundown on what’s happening with all the events and
activities:
Saturday, March 18 – Dedication of “Mountain Cathedrals” sculpture by
artist Michael Paul Thiry at the site on North Date Palm 11 a.m. Reception
to follow at City Hall. Thanks to Bill Bayne, Leslie Grosjean, Lynn Mallotto,
Horst Schnurr, David Franz, Ben Potter and Richard England for helping with
the sculpture, installation and dedication. Also to Traffic Sgt. Carl
Wolford and all Police department volunteers and personnel who will help
with traffic on Saturday. Both north- and south-bound traffic on Date Palm
from Ave 30th to Vista Chino will be rerouted from 10 a.m. to 12 noon for
the sculpture dedication.
Wednesday morning, March 22 -- Laura Hill arrives at City Hall to begin
her duties as Sen. Barbara Boxer’s representative. She will work part time
out of an office set up between the Marketing and Housing Divisions. The
senator is renting the space in City Hall.
Wednesday at 2 p.m. --Dedication of the Solar Canopy on top of the
parking structure. The photovoltaic array is expected to reduce Civic Center
energy costs by about 33%.
City Council study session follows at 3 and then the Council meeting, at
6:30.
Thursday. March 23 – Ribbon cutting by the City Council and Chamber of
Commerce, followed by V.I.P. Opening Party of Buddy Greco’s dinner club.
Celebrities expected to attend include Jack Jones, Jerry Vale, Norm Crosby,
Barbara Sinatra, Peter Marshall, Julius La Rosa and Kaye Ballard, among
others.
CVS coming to valley, right here
The first drugstore in the Coachella Valley owned by the nation’s second
largest chain, CVS, is being planned for the northern part of the community.
(The biggest? Walgreen’s). The store, on the northeast corner of Landau and
Vista Chino, is in plan check. Nationally, CVS, a Rhode Island-based
company, is planning to buy out Sav-on drugstores, typically located in
Albertson’s stores.
In the meantime, Long’s pulled permits for a conditional use permit for a
slightly larger drugstore at the northwest corner of Date Palm and McCallum,
immediately north of the
Former Wal-Mart site, whose plans for a major upgrade received Planning
Commission approval March 1.
Campanile, storage units construction
GHA took out 34 more single family dwelling permits this week for the
Campanile residential project off Ramon Road east of Date Palm Drive and
Cathedral Village Self Storage took out building permits for 235 more units
on Date Palm Drive.
Possible change in schools’ schedules
At its next meeting, March 28, the Palm Springs Unified School District
Board of Education will consider the possibility of changing the school
schedules at Cathedral City Elementary School and Landau Elementary from
year ‘round to Track D. If approved, students at both schools would be off
in July. Since opening of Rio Vista Elementary, enrollment at these schools
is down and a year-round schedule is designed for overcrowded schools.
Potholes fixed on Date Palm
Public Works employees removed 600 sq. ft. of eroded asphalt pavement in
the south-bound lanes of Date Palm at 30th Avenue and replaced it with
Portland cement. The high traffic volumes and constant water in the
intersection made it impossible to maintain asphalt there. “An going pothole
problem has been remedied once and for all,” Dale Bolls, facilities manager,
said. There are other areas in the city that will be addressed as time
permits, but this location received priority because of high traffic
volumes, he explained.
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