Alessandro Alley (West) Residential Development Opportunity

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Request For Proposal from City of Palm Desert - Palm Desert, CA

City of Palm Desert - Economic Development has issued request for proposal, solicitation 2026-RFP-063.

The City of Palm Desert (“City”), together with the Successor Agency to the Redevelopment Agency of the City of Palm Desert (“SARDA”), as applicable, invites qualified residential developers, builders, and development teams to submit qualifications and development proposals for the disposition and development of six vacant parcels located generally along San Antonio Circle, San Clemente Circle, and Alessandro Drive in Palm Desert, California. The City seeks a qualified respondent or respondents capable of delivering high-quality residential development that is compatible with the surrounding neighborhood, responsive to local market conditions, and consistent with applicable zoning, General Plan policies, and development standards. The offered properties consist of four SARDA parcels and two City parcels. The SARDA parcels are located generally at 44870 San Antonio Circle/San Clemente Circle and are identified as APNs 627-071-067, 627-071-069, 627-074-014, and 627-071-068. Together, these four parcels contain approximately 51,835 square feet, or 1.19 acres. Individual parcels range from approximately 0.14 to 0.42 acres, and two of the four parcels are contiguous. The two City parcels are located generally at 44889 San Clemente Circle and are identified as APNs 627-071-065 and 627-071-070. These parcels are noncontiguous and together contain approximately 23,522 square feet, or 0.54 acres, subject to City verification. The combined six-parcel opportunity contains approximately 75,357 square feet, or 1.73 acres, subject to City verification. All six offered parcels are vacant, have reported street access, and are reported to have utilities available to the sites, subject to independent verification by respondents. Final ownership, legal descriptions, title matters, parcel areas, and parcel grouping will be confirmed during the disposition process. APN 627-071-071 is excluded from this solicitation and will be retained by the City. Respondents must not assume access, parking, utilities, construction staging, open space, or other project rights across the retained parcel unless expressly authorized by the City in a future written agreement. Additional property information is provided in Attachment A — Land Appraisal Alessandro Alley (West). The appraisal materials are provided for informational purposes only and do not replace respondent due diligence or independent verification. Any reference in those materials to APN 627-071-071 does not include that parcel in this solicitation. The City may consider proposals for all six offered parcels as a combined development opportunity, either identified parcel group, or individual parcels. Respondents must clearly identify the parcels included in their proposals and explain how the proposed development remains coherent, feasible, and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood if fewer than all six parcels are proposed. This Request for Proposals (“RFP”) requests qualifications and development concepts only at the initial proposal stage. Respondents must not submit proposed purchase prices, financing evidence, proof of funds, earnest money deposits, or other financial offer terms with their initial proposals. The City may request financial capacity information, a proposed purchase price, and other business terms only from respondents advanced to a subsequent review, negotiation, or disposition stage. This RFP does not constitute an offer or commitment to convey any property. No respondent will acquire rights to the properties unless and until final transaction documents are approved by the applicable governing body and executed by all required parties.

The offered properties are located generally north of Alessandro Drive, with frontage along San Antonio Circle and San Clemente Circle. The surrounding area is an established neighborhood characterized primarily by single-family homes to the north and south, with commercial and community-serving uses toward Alessandro Drive and the Highway 111 corridor. The properties are identified as being within the Downtown Edge Transition Overlay (“DE-O”) zone and the Downtown General Plan land use designation. The DE-O is intended to provide an appropriate transition between downtown-oriented development and adjoining residential neighborhoods. Respondents must independently verify the current zoning designation, allowed uses, development standards, and entitlement requirements applicable to their proposed concepts. The City seeks a cohesive, high-quality residential infill development that puts vacant public land into productive use while protecting the character and livability of the surrounding neighborhood. Development concepts should incorporate appropriate building height, massing, setbacks, privacy protection, landscaping, lighting, and access. Proposals should also demonstrate desert-responsive architecture and landscaping, water efficiency, shade, pedestrian comfort, durable materials, and long-term stewardship. Potential residential concepts may include: Single-family detached or small-lot homes; Townhomes, rowhomes, or other attached ownership formats; Duplexes, triplexes, courtyard housing, or other missing-middle housing types; Low- to moderate-density multifamily rental housing with a strong neighborhood transition; For-sale condominium development, subject to applicable approvals; Mixed residential formats that maintain a coherent site-planning and architectural concept; Residential projects that include an affordable, workforce, or attainable housing component; and Other residential concepts demonstrably consistent with current DE-O regulations and the City’s transition and compatibility objectives. The City is not prescribing a single unit count, tenure, or product type. The preferred concept will be driven by site conditions and neighborhood compatibility rather than maximum theoretical yield. Proposals should generally locate lower-scale forms along single-family edges and place any additional height or intensity away from those edges. Respondents should generally plan access from the existing public street frontages on San Antonio Circle and/or San Clemente Circle. Access through the retained parcel, private property, alleys, or other parcels must not be assumed without documented legal rights and City approval. Each proposed development must demonstrate how access, parking, open space, utilities, drainage, solid waste, emergency access, and construction staging can be accommodated on the proposed parcel assemblage. The City seeks proposals that present a realistic approach to due diligence, entitlement, environmental review, subdivision

Responses are due November 2, 2026 at 2:00 PM PST.

Questions must be submitted by October 12, 2026 at 2:00 PM PDT.

Commodity categories: Real Estate.

Contact: Mariela Salazar, Management Analyst (msalazar@palmdesert.gov, (760) 574-5284).

2 documents are attached to the notice: Alessandro Alley 4 Lots - Appraisal Report; Alessandro Alley 3 Lots- Appraisal Report.

The full solicitation document, addenda and the question-and-answer thread are on the agency's OpenGov portal at https://procurement.opengov.com/portal/cityofpalmdesert/projects/310192. Responses are submitted electronically there, and a free vendor account is required before you can upload one.

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