A Broad vision for L.A.

From his 12th-floor suite in an office complex in Westwood, Eli Broad looks over acres of million-dollar homes, soaring towers along Wilshire Boulevard and clogged swaths of freeways and thoroughfares.
Tony Castro in the Daily News.
It is the disjointed, cacophonous Los Angeles in which Broad lives. But it's not the coherent, organized Los Angeles he envisions for the future.

"We've got a great city and have a lot of great communities, whether it's the Valley or whether it's the Westside or whether it's Pasadena," he says. "But you need one place where people from all communities can come together, whether it's for the arts, culture, sports, whatever.