Nordstrom Finds an Oasis in the Desert
Nordstrom executives have signed a letter of intent with the Westfield Palm Desert center in California’s Coachella Valley to open a two-story, 149,000-square-foot store in spring of 2009.
The Seattle-based retailer has been looking at the Palm Springs area for a long time and finally found the right environment at the Palm Desert shopping center, located off of Palm Canyon Drive and Highway 74 in the heart of the Coachella Valley’s retail epicenter. The center is close to El Paseo Drive, the desert’s answer to Rodeo Drive, with its equally impressive demographic.
Westfield, an Australian company with U.S. headquarters in Los Angeles, plans to add a number of new specialty shops, lifestyle tenants and restaurants to the 900,000-square-foot center. The center is part of Westfield’s strategy of building and renovating hybrid shopping centers, combining indoor and outdoor elements within one center. —Robert McAllister
