Welcome to Cathedral City
Cathedral City, colloquially known as "Cat City", is a desert resort city in
Riverside County,
California, United States, within the
Colorado Desert's
Coachella Valley. Situated between
Palm Springs and
Rancho Mirage, the city has the second largest population in the
Coachella Valley.
Prior to the arrival of European explorers and settlers, the land was part of the territory inhabited by the
Cahuilla Indians. Today every other square mile of the city is part of the
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians reservation land. Development of a town began when a
housing subdivision was built in 1925, although it was not
incorporated until 1981. Its population was 51,200 at the
2010 census.
Cathedral City began a downtown revitalization program in the late 1990s, which was substantially completed by 2005. A new city hall was built, as well as the
IMAX/
Mary Pickford movie theater complex, along with a total of 130 acres (0.53 km2) of new or remodeled stores and restaurant space.
