Grand Avenue Project

The Grand Avenue Project is a project currently under development in Downtown Los Angeles, along Grand Avenue. On February 14, 2007 both the Los Angeles City Council and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the project, and officials originally hoped to break ground in December 2007. The project has been developed in stages due to the Great Recession. On July 26, 2012, Grand Park opened to the public as the initial phase of the project^[1] followed by the unveiling of a 19-story luxury condo tower in the Fall of 2014.^[2] The Broad, located between the Disney Concert Hall and the condo tower, is set to open in 2015.^[3] The final phase of the project, on a lot directly east of the Disney Concert Hall, will have two skyscrapers. They will consist of apartments and an Equinox Hotel. Construction is set to start in December 2015 and open by the end of 2018.^[4]

Design

The project's key public component is the Grand Park, a 16-acre (6.5 ha) park stretching between the development's two boundaries: City Hall and the Department of Water and Power building. The park was designed to be pedestrian friendly and connects Bunker Hill to the Civic Center. The park includes tree-shaded sidewalks, fountains, plenty of street lights, benches, and kiosks, to encourage the walking and exploration of the area, which was designed to encourage residents and visitors to enjoy a family-friendly green space in downtown Los Angeles, with musical events and other park activities staged at Grand Park. The remaining two high rise towers set to rise across from the Disney Concert Hall are being designed by famed architect Frank Gehry.^[5]

See also

• Bunker Hill, Los Angeles
• Grand Park
• Frank Gehry

Notes

Frank Gehry
Completed works	8 Spruce Street Anaheim Ice Art Gallery of Ontario Biomuseo Binoculars Building BP Pedestrian Bridge Cabrillo Marine Aquarium California Science Center Air & Space Building Cinémathèque Française Dancing House Disney Village Dr Chau Chak Wing Building DZ Bank building Gehry Residence Gehry Tower Guggenheim Museum Bilbao IAC Building NYC Jay Pritzker Pavilion Louis Vuitton Foundation Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health Loyola Law School Maggie's Centre at Dundee Merriweather Post Pavilion Museum of Pop Culture Neuer Zollhof New World Center Novartis Pharma A.G. Campus Ohr-O'Keefe Museum Of Art Peter B. Lewis Building Ray and Maria Stata Center Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts Santa Monica Place Serpentine Gallery 2008 Summer Pavilion Sleep Train Pavilion Team Disney Anaheim University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Vitra Design Museum Walt Disney Concert Hall Weisman Art Museum
Works under construction / proposed	Estació de la Sagrera (2012) World Trade Center Performing Arts Center (2015) Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (2017) Grand Avenue Project (On hold) Philadelphia Museum of Art Expansion (On hold) Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial (Proposed)
Associated with	Aaron Betsky Dan Dworsky Vlado Milunić Permasteelisa Sydney Pollack
Concepts	Cardboard furniture Digital Project Organization of the artist
Pop culture	Easy Edges "The Seven-Beer Snitch" Sketches of Frank Gehry
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