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THE NEW ART CITY

with a smattering of skyscrapers and abandoned buildings that had little appeal. But in 2008, the “Bringing Back Broadway” initiative was launched as a 10-year plan to revitalise the historic Broadway corridor’s grand heritage of art deco, Beaux-Arts and Spanish baroque buildings. Further kick-starting the renaissance was the arrival of the Broad contemporary art museum in 2015, adjacent to the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert

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