Downtown Palm Springs
Palm Springs, CA
2017
ARCM
Elemental Architecture
Design ARC
The new 16 acres Downtown Site in Palm Springs is a $240 million Mixed Use Urban Project designed to address challenges of city life and meeting the needs of new generations.
Our approach was to a create design-centric driven experience, a completely transitional place for our community and visitors to discover new product, brands supported by technology. Grit’s Downtown meets the human desire to be entertained and not bored. We continue to work hard adding interesting and sometimes controversial Art Pieces and Muriel’s to let brands in our developments come alive when customer stroll through our stores in a relaxed sunny environment.
History
The Center, which is the original name of the shopping complex, was constructed in multiple phases from 1946 to 1955 and designed by A. Quincy Jones, Paul R. Williams, Donald Wexler, Albert Frey and John Porter Clark. It was developed by The Palm Springs Corporation on land owned by Bank of America.
The Center, at 146-174 N. Palm Canyon Drive, is composed of several buildings constructed over several years (1946-1955). It straddles the space between Indian Canyon Drive and Palm Canyon Drive that once was an attractive courtyard. It is considered one of the early examples of mixed-use architecture, combining commercial, retail, and residential accommodation.
In 2004, the Palm Springs Citywide Historic Resources Survey identified the Town & Country Center to be one of the most historically important buildings in Palm Springs.
The Town & Country Center made the front of a Palm Springs post card.
