- The Palm Springs Modern Committee and the Friends of the Town & Country Center have struggled to produce a compromise alternative to demolition that would meet the key goals that the Mayor has emphasized in recent months, namely, opening the Center to Palm Canyon Drive and providing a wide pedestrian connection between Palm Canyon and Indian Canyon Drives east from the Art Museum.
- The City's own historic resources survey found the Town & Country Center to be a "rare and exceptional example of the Late Moderne style" by master architects Paul R. Williams and A. Quincy Jones that meets the level of significance necessary for listing in the National Register of Historic Places.
- The Town & Country Center is comprised of three buildings: the two-story north building with its curving canopy, shops, and apartments; the Town & Country Restaurant (now Zeldaz); and the south building now housing Grill-a-Burger and retail shops. As important as these three buildings are as one complete design by these architects, we propose that the south building be removed so that a wide plaza open to Palm Canyon Drive would be created.
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