“Palm Springs bills itself as a city “like no place else.” On days like Friday – when more than 100 locals showed up for the reopening of the Bank of America building on South Palm Canyon Drive – that phrase proves to be more than just a slogan.
A simple bank reopening and ribbon-cutting would prove barely newsworthy in most places. But if Friday’s event here was just a simple ribbon-cutting, it wouldn’t have attracted members of the Palm Springs City Council, City Manager Scott Stiles, a representative from state Rep. Greg Wallis’s office, the bank president for Bank of America’s Inland Empire branch, Bansree Parikh, and a whole retinue of commissioners and committee members belonging to architecture and preservation groups throughout the city…”