Planning Commission to review rebuilding plan for American Reproductive Center site
The proposed 19,347-square-foot, two-story medical office building would replace a facility destroyed in a 2025 bombing.
The Palm Springs Planning Commission next week will consider a proposal to rebuild the American Reproductive Center at the site of a 2025 bombing that federal authorities classified as an act of domestic terrorism.
TJ Property Holdings, doing business as American Reproductive Center, is seeking approval of a development permit to construct a 19,347-square-foot, two-story medical office building at 1199 North Indian Canyon Drive, near East Tachevah Drive.
Local reporting and journalism you can count on.
Subscribe to The Palm Springs Post
The previous facility was destroyed May 17, 2025, when a vehicle-borne explosive device detonated in the parking lot just before 11 a.m. One person — a 25-year-old man from Twentynine Palms identified as the suspected bomber — was killed in the blast, and four others were injured.
No members of the clinic team were harmed and the laboratory — including eggs, embryos and other reproductive materials — remained secure and undamaged. The rebuilding cost has been estimated at approximately $17.5 million.
According to a city staff report, the proposed replacement building would include a 9,430-square-foot surgery center on the ground floor and a 9,883-square-foot OB/GYN and fertility center on the second floor. The maximum height would be 30 feet, comparable to nearby medical and commercial buildings in the Uptown District near Desert Regional Medical Center.
The 1.79-acre property is designated “Office” in the city’s General Plan and zoned general commercial. Staff says the project would reinforce the area’s role as a medical campus node anchored by the hospital.
Plans call for the building to be placed along North Palm Canyon Drive, with 109 off-street parking spaces located to the east and accessed from North Indian Canyon Drive. The design includes a guardhouse, controlled entry driveway, gated exit and a seven-foot perimeter wall and fence.
City staff is recommending approval of the development permit and a finding that the project qualifies for a categorical exemption under the California Environmental Quality Act as an in-fill development. Final architectural and landscape details would be reviewed separately by the Architectural Review Committee.
The meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall. An agenda can be viewed here.
Author
Related Articles
Rebuild Palm Springs distributes initial $82,000 to bombing-affected businesses
The initiative began after organizers determined that small businesses in the blast zone surrounding the American Reproductive Center clinic faced more than half a million dollars in uninsured damages.
Man accused in Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing dies in federal custody
Daniel Park, 32, was found unresponsive at Los Angeles detention center Tuesday morning and pronounced dead at a hospital.
FBI arrests Washington man for providing explosive chemicals in Palm Springs fertility clinic bombing
Federal authorities allege the man shipped 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to a 25-year-old Twentynine Palms man who bombed the clinic and was killed in the blast.