Wal-Mart, Sam's Club to Anchor Palm Desert Retail Center
Developers recently announced plans to build a 700,000-square-foot shopping center anchored by Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club in Southern California’s Coachella Valley.
The project, called the Desert Gateway Shopping Center, will be developed in the city of Palm Desert by Los Angeles-based Malcolm Riley & Associates and Carver Companies in Indian Wells, Calif.
Located at the corner of Monterey Avenue and Dinah Shore Drive, near the Interstate 10 freeway, the center’s Wal-Mart will have 149,000 square feet (with a planned expansion of 74,700 square feet for a supermarket) and Sam’s Club will have 153,000 square feet in a new, expanded prototype. In addition, the center will have an additional 350,000 square feet devoted to smaller retailers and restaurants.
Financing for the 70-acre project remains undetermined. Scheduled to open in spring 2003, the project is expected to cost up to $100 million. —Nola Sarkisian-Miller
