About That Big House in Palm Desert …

I just got a hard copy of that Desert Sun front-pater from April 5 re. Duane B’s 30,000sf house in Palm Desert, titled “Just how big is a big house in the Coachella Valley? In the battle to keep up with the Joneses, mogul Hagadone ups the ante to 30,000 square feet.” I provided a link to the story last spring. But it didn’t have all the details. Here are some of them:

*Neighbors include: “Ocean’s 12” producer Jerry Weintraub , “Entertainment Tonight” host Mary Hart, Pete Sampras and Starbucks CEO Orin Smith .

*The home will be built into the mountain it’s on.

*The cost of the project is $30 million, and it will be finished by fall of 2007.

*The home is a collection of separate buildings, connected to each other through pathways and with servants’ quarters on a lower floor.

*Hagadone purchased two lots totalling 7.66 acres (lots at Bighorn usually cost between $2 million and $5 million).

*The house will have about 20,000sf of living space and another 10,000sf of garage and storage space.

There’s more, but you get the picture.