Photos: Closer to grandness

City leaders have been working to transform downtown Los Angeles' upper Grand Avenue into a major cultural and tourist destination. With the opening of the Broad museum, the area moves closer to that goal, but another major component awaits fruition.

City leaders have been working to transform downtown Los Angeles’ upper Grand Avenue into a major cultural and tourist destination. With the opening of the Broad museum, the area moves closer to that goal, but another major component awaits fruition.

  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

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The arts cluster grows, but fuller plans for Grand Avenue await fruition.

Grand Avenue

Eventually, a hotel-residential-restaurant-shopping complex is expected across Grand Avenue from Walt Disney Concert Hall, foreground right, and the Broad.

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Grand Avenue

The Broad museum, in the foreground, joins the Museum of Contemporary Art, left, on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. The museums’ collections overlap.

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Grand Avenue

The Museum of Contemporary Art’s main site, designed by Arata Isozaki, opened in 1986. Across Grand Avenue from it are Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Broad museum, and just to its northwest is the Music Center, with the Dorothy Chandler, Ahmanson and Taper theaters.

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)

Grand Avenue

The Broad is designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler. It opens Sept. 20, housing the contemporary art collection of Eli and Edythe Broad.

  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Grand Avenue

A detail of the Broad, from street level. Just beyond it is Walt Disney Concert Hall.

  (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Grand Avenue

Grand Park stretches east from Grand Avenue and the Music Center.

  (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)