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Tamara Hinson discovers that good things really do come in threes in this beautiful desert city


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beautiful city, has shopping mall giant Westfield to thank for its recent upgrade. Westfield’s proposed plans


for a sprawling retail complex in the city went down like a lead balloon, and the retailer eventually plumped for nearby Palm Desert. But the subsequent realisation that residents were being lured


away by its big-name brands persuaded local authorities to find a happy medium, and that’s where the downtown development project came in. So with a fresh lease of life,


what else is there to discover in this southern Californian city?


w DOWNTOWN Today, Palm Springs’ centre is in the early stages of a huge


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