The City of Temecula won the Award for Excellence in the Economic
Development Through the Arts category of the 2017 Helen Putnam
Award for Excellence program. For more about the awards program,
visit www.helenputnam.org.
First Weekend Palm Desert helps increase the city’s tax revenues
and makes it a regional center for the arts by drawing crowds to
lively events from November through May.
The city took legal action to help property owners effect change
and address the shootings, illegal drug sales, traffic and other
problems that plagued the complex.