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.

(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)

Sept. 9, 2015 2 PM PT

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

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)

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)

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)

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)