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A Major Economic Impact: A New Study Predicts Coachella Valley’s iHub Will Bring Billions to the Area Over Two Decades

When the pain of the Great Recession was just beginning to be really felt in 2009, Brian McGowan—then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s deputy secretary for economic development and commerce—approached Coachella Valley leaders about developing an innovation hub. “We didn’t really have a clue what it meant,” said Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet at a news conference on […]

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