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The Grand is rising. As the decades-delayed mixed-use facility designed by Frank Gehry begins to take towering, and possibly transformative, shape across the street from his Walt Disney Concert Hall, crucial missing pieces of that transformation are suddenly noticeable: two concert halls and a public plaza by Gehry that are keys to making Grand Avenue an arts arena like none …

Commentary: Why Grand Avenue and Frank Gehry are L.A.’s path out of the pandemic

A rendering of the Grand, now under construction, with Grand Avenue closed and projections on Walt Disney Concert Hall. The Crenshaw/LAX Transit project will add public transportation from the YOLA Center in Inglewood that Gehry has designed for the L.A. Phil’s youth orchestra and education programs. In our discussion, Gehry announced that he’s designing a community arts training center in …

For this Grand Avenue project, we invited Justin Davidson, the architecture critic for New York magazine, to cast his eye on the evolving cultural density of Grand Avenue. Sixteen years after Frank Gehry’s marvel opened — and 30 since Lillian Disney made the down payment — Disney Hall is still spinning off energy, and the neighborhood around it is still …

Explore the past, present and future of downtown L.A.’s Grand Avenue

Walk the length of Grand Avenue from Temple to 5th Street, and you’ll encounter one of the most vital arts hubs in the city. Travis Geske / For The Times City of angels, city of culture Los Angeles Times executive editor Norman Pearlstine shares his impressions of the Grand Avenue project in downtown Los Angeles. How Grand Avenue elevated L.A.'s …

After more than 15 years, the Grand — the final piece of Bunker Hill’s transformative Grand Avenue Project — is finally showing signs of life. According to current plans, the $1-billion-plus development, designed by Frank Gehry and developed by Related Cos. and set directly across the street from Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, will, by 2021, contain a residential tower, …

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Timeline: How Bunker Hill transformed Los Angeles and Grand Avenue

Grand Avenue is home to a cluster of architectural and artistic achievements that attract millions of people a year, locals and tourists whose energy carries the promise of a vibrant urban center on Bunker Hill. The city’s Community Redevelopment Agency studied how to redevelop 135 acres of the Bunker Hill neighborhood “classified by local and federal authorities as a slum …

Long-delayed Grand Avenue project in downtown Los Angeles kicks off

Architect Frank Gehry stands in front of a banner featuring a rendering of the Grand during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new development in downtown Los Angeles on Monday. Architect Frank Gehry, billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad and civic leaders held a ceremonial groundbreaking on Monday for the Grand, a long-delayed massive development on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. Broad …

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Developers of Grand Avenue’s Gehry project say work will begin this month now that financing is secured

Related Cos. has secured construction financing for the Grand, a nearly $1-billion complex with apartments, condominiums, theaters, restaurants and shops. Since Related Cos. first got the contract in 2004 to build the massive Grand Avenue project, there’s been a housing boom and bust, a financial crisis and a new explosion of residential construction downtown. “We look forward to celebrating with …