In 2021, Indio native Ejay Gomez had a dream that he was walking through a bustling town full of thriving businesses. Kids were playing, dogs were barking and all the storefronts were full. “I thought it was like downtown Pasadena or something,” said Gomez, who had opened Indio’s first cafe, Everbloom Coffee, with his business partner, Matthew Ortega, just a few months before. “It was a communal space where people were hanging out in a ‘live, eat, work’ kind of place.” In the dream, Gomez asked God where he was. God told him, he said, that this was the future of what was then a largely deserted stretch of downtown Indio, just a block away from where Gomez grew up. “He said, ‘If you steward this well, I will make this place prosperous,’” Gomez said. “It was such a real dream that it became a core conviction.” Gomez’s vision may not have come fully to fruition just yet, but with a host of new businesses opening in the past year and several more on the …